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Sovereign Rents and Quality of Tax Policy and Administration

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dc.creator Knack, Stephen
dc.date 2012-03-30T07:28:58Z
dc.date 2012-03-30T07:28:58Z
dc.date 2009
dc.date.accessioned 2023-02-18T19:43:42Z
dc.date.available 2023-02-18T19:43:42Z
dc.identifier Journal of Comparative Economics
dc.identifier 01475967
dc.identifier http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4638
dc.identifier.uri http://localhost:8080/xmlui/handle/CUHPOERS/250117
dc.description Windfall revenues from foreign aid or natural resource exports can weaken governments' incentives to design or maintain efficient tax systems. Cross-country data for developing countries provide evidence for this hypothesis, using a World Bank indicator on "efficiency of revenue mobilization." Aid's negative effects on quality of tax systems are robust to correcting for potential reverse causality, to changes in the sample, and to alternative estimation methods. Revenues from natural resources are also associated with lower-quality tax systems, but results are somewhat sensitive to the choice of resource dependence indicators, and to a few extreme values in the data. Disaggregating by resource type, revenues from fuel exports are found to be more strongly associated than revenues from metals and ores exports with inefficient tax systems.
dc.language EN
dc.relation http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/igo
dc.rights World Bank
dc.subject Fiscal Policy E620
dc.subject Foreign Aid F350
dc.subject Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General H200
dc.subject International Linkages to Development
dc.subject Role of International Organizations O190
dc.subject Fiscal and Monetary Policy in Development O230
dc.subject Resource Booms Q330
dc.title Sovereign Rents and Quality of Tax Policy and Administration
dc.type Journal Article
dc.type Journal Article


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