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TaxDev collaborating with Government of Ghana on VAT, customs, and distributional analysis

In these videos our partners from the Revenue Policy Division of the Ghanaian Ministry of Finance explain how our joint work is helping to improve specific areas of tax policy analysis and the poli...

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Ghana publishes major new VAT report

Ghana’s Ministry of Finance has published a major new report – A review of Ghana’s value-added tax (VAT) system....

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How Peru transformed natural resource wealth into local economic development

This blog was originally published on voxdev.org on 4 February 2025 ...

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Data, Statistics and Tools for Development-focused Public Finance

The increasing complexity of development challenges requires sophisticated data and statistical frameworks to inform public finance decisions and accelerate SDG progress....

2025 Dialogue on Public Finance and the SDGS conference graphic

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9th Zurich Conference on Public Finance in Developing Countries

December 16th-17th 2024, in Zurich, Switzerland...

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Resource windfalls, public expenditures and local economies

This paper uses plausibly exogenous variation in the redistribution of natural resource tax revenues in Peru to study whether transfers to local gov...

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Cash Transfers and the Local Economy: Evidence from Brazil

Cash transfers have been adopted worldwide and credited with significant reductions in poverty....

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Reform or Replace? Three country perspectives on the use of tax incentives for structural transformation

This blog was originally published on odi.org on 23 October 2024 ...

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Wage effects of means-tested transfers: Incidence implications of using firms as intermediaries

This paper shows that how countries disburse tax credits matters for economic incidence....

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Survey of the Ghanaian Tax System

Ghana’s Ministry of Finance (MoF) has published an updated Survey of the Ghanaian Tax System, produced jointly with TaxDev researchers from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (UK)....

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Ethiopia publishes its first National Medium-Term Revenue Strategy

In October 2024, the Government of Ethiopia published its first National Medium-Term Revenue Strategy (NMTRS), setting out a roadmap for reform of key elements of tax policy and administration for ...

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