This paper estimates the policy and economic impacts of a European Union–led effort to review and “blacklist” jurisdictions based on their compliance with international standards designed to curb corporate...
Low tax compliance in low- and middle-income countries around the world limits the ability of governments to offer effective public services. This paper reports the results of a randomly rolled out text...
The Pandora Papers highlight a worldwide lack of transparency of information on who owns and controls what and where. Unfortunately, trusts and complex corporate structures are still an effective way to...
The Pandora Papers highlight a worldwide lack of transparency of information on who owns and controls what and where. Unfortunately, trusts and complex corporate structures are still an effective way to...
There is a growing consensus that the presence of illegal and harmful cross-border financial flows is one of the factors impeding economic and human development. In recent years, a new conceptual framework...
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By improving their skills, health, knowledge, and resilience—their human capital—people can be more productive, flexible, and innovative. Human capital is a central driver of sustainable growth and poverty...
By improving their skills, health, knowledge, and resilience—their human capital—people can be more productive, flexible, and innovative. Human capital is a central driver of sustainable growth and poverty...
By improving their skills, health, knowledge, and resilience—their human capital—people can be more productive, flexible, and innovative. Human capital is a central driver of sustainable growth and poverty...
By improving their skills, health, knowledge, and resilience—their human capital—people can be more productive, flexible, and innovative. Human capital is a central driver of sustainable growth and poverty...
Following a decade of centralization, decentralization and re-centralization of the responsibility to collect property tax revenue, the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) has struggled with high levels of...
This paper examines the dynamic responses of income and poverty to increased investment in the human capital of new cohorts of workers, using a quantitative macroeconomic model with realistic demography...
This paper investigates the presence of endogenous peer effects in the adoption of formal property rights. Using data from a unique land titling experiment held in an unplanned settlement in Dar es Salaam...
This paper reports on a randomized field experiment that uses price incentives to address economic and gender inequality in land tenure formalization. During the 1990s and 2000s, nearly two dozen African...
High levels of informality, from 70 percent to 80 percent in many developing country cities, increase poverty and make urbanization unsustainable. But it is not clear if this is due to lack of interest...