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  Taxation, governance and state-building: concepts and issues

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2008

  This PowerPoint presentation outlines why taxation matters for development, perspectives on taxation and state-building and the taxation/aid/governance discourse. It shows that taxation matters for developing state capacity for service delivery and in democratic state building. However, it is rarely central in economic and policy debates in aid dependent countries for the following reasons:
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  The resource curse: which institutions matter?

  Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2007

  Countries rich in natural resources on average grow more slowly than countries without such
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  Audit committees in central banks

  International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 2007

  This paper reviews the tasks and design of audit committees, increasingly recommended as a way to strengthen financial accountability and good central bank governance. To avoid a configuration where management would be overseeing itself, and thereby limit conflicts of interest, several options are available for oversight bodies depending on the prevailing legal tradition.
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  Does good government draw foreign capital? explaining China' s exceptional foreign direct investment inflow

  World Bank, 2007

  This paper explores the linkages between good governance and foriegn direct investment (FDI) in China, which is now the world 's largest destination of FDI, despite its institutional deficiencies. The analysis compares the quality of China’s institutions with other developing countries.
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  Good governance in investment promotion

  United Nations [UN] Conference on Trade and Development, 2004

  This paper discusses the question of what constitutes good governance in investment promotion, and looks at the increasing importance of corporate governance, and the role of investment promotion agencies in improving governance in the public and private sector.The paper highlights four elements, which are vital for good governance in investment promotion, and introduces some “best practices” c
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  Good governance or bad management

  Focus on the Global South, 2002

  This book presents a number of chapters by individual authors which give a damning indictment of the Asian Development Bank (ADB) policy and processes.Central to the books argument is that whilst precepts of good governance should imply publicly accountable systems of rights, entitlements, laws, rules, distribution and use of resources and decision making based on universal principles of equali
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  Democracy, regime stability, and growth

  Department of Economics, Stockholm University, 2002

  This study argues that a weak relation between democracy and economic growth found in previous studies is due to the neglect of the increase of stability of institutions over time, and the interaction of this stability with the type of political regime.
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  Governance conditionality and the reform of multilateral development finance: the roleof the Group of Eight

  Paul H Nitze School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University, USA, 2002

  This paper sets out to examine the international financial institutions' (IFIs’) efforts at strengthening good governance in developing countries and emerging markets.The debate on the role of IFIs has thus far mainly focused on the quantitative aspect of conditionality, oscillating between concerns over how much is too much and how much is enough.
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  Does local taxation make local government responsive to citizens?

  Governance and Development Review, IDS, 2001

  There is considerable evidence that a significant cause of bad governance, especially in poorer countries, is that states are financed not from the 'earned income' that they derive from taxing their citizens, but rather from the 'unearned income' derived either from large mineral resources or, less significantly, large aid inflows.
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  When do the rich willingly pay income tax?

  Governance and Development Review, IDS, 2002

  Brazil and South Africa have much in common. In particular, they are both large middle income countries with very high levels of income inequality where whites historically have dominated over blacks.They differ markedly in terms of the significance of income tax. Relatively little income tax is collected in Brazil (4% of GDP).

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