Taxation
- Taxation is a crucial source of sustainable, predictable, and long-term development finance
- ActionAid International, 2008
- The predicted fall in growth for developing countries is equivalent to a loss of $414 billion. Rich countries have introduced all kinds of fiscal measures to spend their way out of the recession and are exploring ways to retain much n...
- Mongolia’s previously sound system of mining property rights undermined by the imposition of a Windfall Profit Tax (WPT)
- World Growth, 2008
- The state great hural passed the 1997 minerals law to regulate mining as part of Mongolia’s transition to a market economy. In 2006 the state great hural amended the 1997 law and added a new tax. The major changes included: impo...
- A bold solution to financing for development
- North-South Institute, 2008
- Global problems require bold solutions and the Currency Transaction Tax (CTT) is one such idea. It proposes a small levy on foreign exchange transactions and uses the money raised to finance development projects for the global public ...
- Is people's perception an important factor in tax compliance?
- O.H. Fjeldstad; E Ngalewa; L Katera / Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2008
- This paper examines citizens’ perceptions of local taxation system in six councils in Tanzania. It investigates why residents do or do not pay local taxes, and their perceptions of misuse of tax revenue. Respondents&...
- National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra (NATSEM)
- NATSEM is a research centre associated with the University of Canberra that undertakes research and analysis specialising in the use of microdata and microsimulation modelling to address ongoing and emerging research agendas and client demand and contribute to and enhance social, economic and business decision making. It aims to steer microsimulation modelling in Australia beyond its tr...
- Scaling up funding for climate change adaptation: options and challenges
- B. Müller / Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, 2008
- Any view on international finance for climate adaptation in developing countries must deal with the question of the cost of adaptation and how much funds will be available under current conditions. Although existing estimates of adapt...
- Slim governments boost economic growth and deliver higher social gains
- K. Marsden / Centre for Policy Studies, UK, 2008
- This paper reviews the economic performance of 20 industrialised countries to examine the validity of the early supply-side economists' argument that lower taxes will boost growth and therefore eventually lead to higher and more effic...
- Business and the MDGs: analysing the tax payments of 14 UK and US-based companies
- J. Griffiths / ActionAid International, 2008
- The MDG Business Call to Action raises a vital development issue: how can companies, particularly large multinationals, best contribute to the fight against global poverty? One way is by ensuring that they pay the full amount of tax o...
- An alternative plan to save the world from ecological crisis
- L. Brown / Earth Policy Institute, 2008
- This publication argues that the roots of the current environmental dilemmas lie in the enormous growth of the human enterprise over the last century. The author presents an alternative plan to save civilisation, which is ambitious no...
- Tax and expenditure policies to reduce horizontal inequalities in post-conflict countries
- F. Stewart; G. Brown; A. Cobham / Political Economy Research Institute, 2008
- The need for post-conflict countries to address economic inequality, particularly horizontal inequality among culturally defined groups, is increasingly being recognised. But it is less clear how this should be done. A new paper broug...
- Taxation is a crucial source of sustainable, predictable, and long-term development finance
- ActionAid International, 2008
- The predicted fall in growth for developing countries is equivalent to a loss of $414 billion. Rich countries have introduced all kinds of fiscal measures to spend their way out of the recession and are exploring ways to retain much n...
- Mongolia’s previously sound system of mining property rights undermined by the imposition of a Windfall Profit Tax (WPT)
- World Growth, 2008
- The state great hural passed the 1997 minerals law to regulate mining as part of Mongolia’s transition to a market economy. In 2006 the state great hural amended the 1997 law and added a new tax. The major changes included: impo...
- A bold solution to financing for development
- North-South Institute, 2008
- Global problems require bold solutions and the Currency Transaction Tax (CTT) is one such idea. It proposes a small levy on foreign exchange transactions and uses the money raised to finance development projects for the global public ...
- Is people's perception an important factor in tax compliance?
- O.H. Fjeldstad; E Ngalewa; L Katera / Research on Poverty Alleviation, Tanzania, 2008
- This paper examines citizens’ perceptions of local taxation system in six councils in Tanzania. It investigates why residents do or do not pay local taxes, and their perceptions of misuse of tax revenue. Respondents&...
- Scaling up funding for climate change adaptation: options and challenges
- B. Müller / Oxford Institute for Energy Studies, 2008
- Any view on international finance for climate adaptation in developing countries must deal with the question of the cost of adaptation and how much funds will be available under current conditions. Although existing estimates of adapt...
- Slim governments boost economic growth and deliver higher social gains
- K. Marsden / Centre for Policy Studies, UK, 2008
- This paper reviews the economic performance of 20 industrialised countries to examine the validity of the early supply-side economists' argument that lower taxes will boost growth and therefore eventually lead to higher and more effic...
- Business and the MDGs: analysing the tax payments of 14 UK and US-based companies
- J. Griffiths / ActionAid International, 2008
- The MDG Business Call to Action raises a vital development issue: how can companies, particularly large multinationals, best contribute to the fight against global poverty? One way is by ensuring that they pay the full amount of tax o...
- An alternative plan to save the world from ecological crisis
- L. Brown / Earth Policy Institute, 2008
- This publication argues that the roots of the current environmental dilemmas lie in the enormous growth of the human enterprise over the last century. The author presents an alternative plan to save civilisation, which is ambitious no...
- Tax and expenditure policies to reduce horizontal inequalities in post-conflict countries
- F. Stewart; G. Brown; A. Cobham / Political Economy Research Institute, 2008
- The need for post-conflict countries to address economic inequality, particularly horizontal inequality among culturally defined groups, is increasingly being recognised. But it is less clear how this should be done. A new paper broug...
- Understanding Sri Lankan government budget
- M Sarvananthan / Pathfinder Foundation, 2007
- This briefing paper, prepared for the purpose of educating legislators in Sri Lanka on issues relating to their government budget, addresses the following questions: what is a government budget? what are the la...
- National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling, University of Canberra (NATSEM)
- NATSEM is a research centre associated with the University of Canberra that undertakes research and analysis specialising in the use of microdata and microsimulation modelling to address ongoing and emerging research agendas and client demand and contribute to and enhance social, economic and business decision making. It aims to steer microsimulation modelling in Australia beyond its tr...
