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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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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

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....

Blog

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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