Domestic Resource Mobilization and the Poor
At the UN General Assembly of September 2015, countries around the world committed to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By 2030, counties committed to attain poverty and hunger eradication, healthy lives, quality education, gender equality...
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/295521487760930704/World-development-report-2017-Domestic-resource-mobilization-and-the-poor http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26254 |
| Summary: | At the UN General Assembly of September
2015, countries around the world committed to the
Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By 2030, counties
committed to attain poverty and hunger eradication, healthy
lives, quality education, gender equality and sustainable
development. Countries also committed to promoting
full-employment growth, decent work, peaceful societies and
accountable institutions as well as to reducing inequality
and strengthening global partnerships for sustainable
development. One key factor to achieving the SDGs will be
the availability of fiscal resources to deliver the floors
in social protection, social services and infrastructure
embedded in the SDGs. A significant portion of these
resources is expected to come from domestic sources in
developing countries themselves, complemented by transfers
from the countries that are better off. The report states
that for all countries, the mobilization and effective use
of domestic resources is at the crux of our common pursuit
of sustainable development and achieving the SDGs Moreover,
countries will be expected to set spending targets to
deliver social protection and essential public services for
all and set nationally defined domestic revenue targets.In
particular, that raising additional revenues domestically
for infrastructure, protecting the environment or social
services may leave a significant portion of the poor with
less cash to buy food and other essential goods. It is not
uncommon that the net effect of all governments taxing and
spending is to leave the poor worse off in terms of actual
consumption of private goods and services. Achieving the new
Sustainable Development Goals will depend in part on the
ability of governments to improve their tax collection and
enforcement systems. However, demand for investments into
infrastructure and public services must be balanced against
the competing need to protect low-income households that may
otherwise be made worse off from misaligned tax and transfer policies. |
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