Sovereign Rents and Quality of Tax Policy and Administration

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 mobilizati...

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Main Author: Knack, Stephen
Language:EN
Published: 2012
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/4638