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This paper examines Malawi's recent efforts to reform its tax system. Malawi embarked on a comprehensive tax reform with World Bank assistance in the latter half of the 1980s.
Shalizi, Zmarak, Thirsk, Wayne
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Urban property taxation in developing countries [PDF]
The property tax is the most widely used source of municipal tax revenue in the developing world, but its current yield is often insubstantial. This paper has two objectives.
Dillinger, William
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On the intersectoral migration of agricultural labor [PDF]
Labor is the single most important factor in determining national income. As economies grow, agricultural labor declines as a share of total labor and converges to a level of 2 or 3 percent.
Larson, Donald, Mundlak, Yair
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Fiscal responsibility laws for subnational discipline : the Latin American experience [PDF]
This paper discusses fiscal responsibility laws in Latin America, with special attention to their provisions for fiscal discipline by subnational governments. It discusses why and when such laws might be useful-to help resolve the coordination problem in
Webb, Steven B.
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Macroeconomic adjustment, stabilization, and growth in reforming socialist economies : analytical and policy issues [PDF]
Current attempts at reform in Eastern European countries raise important issues of macroeconomic management in the transition from central planning to a market or mixed economy.
Solimano, Andres
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Delaying the Bell: The Effects of Longer School Days on Adolescent Motherhood in Chile [PDF]
We analyze the effect of a Chilean school reform that lengthened the school day from half to full-day shifts on the likelihood that adolescent girls become mothers.
Berthelon, Matias, Kruger, Diana
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, 1998 In this paper we investigate the determinants of municipal labour demand in Sweden 1988-1995. Utilising a major grant reform in 1993, through which a switch from mainly targeted to mainly general central government grants occurred, we are able to ...
Bergström, Pål +2 more
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The distributional consequences of a tax reform on a VAT for Pakistan [PDF]
To what extent do rich or poor lose or gain from different tax reform packages ? The authors compare the consequences of different options by analyzing actual patterns of consumption and production.
Ahmad, Ehtisham, Ludlow, Stephen
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Land sales and rental markets in transition - evidence from rural Viet Nam [PDF]
The extent to which households should be allowed to transfer their land rights in post-socialist transition economies is of considerable policy interest.
Deininger, Klaus, Songqing Jin
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LEGAL BASES OF MUNICIPAL GOVERNMENT IN RUSSIA AT THE VERGE OF XVIII-XIX cc.
Russian Journal of Economics and Law, 2008 The article is dedicated to the analysis of administrative-legal bases of the municipal government reorganization in Russia at the verge of XVIII-XIX cc. Viewing the largest administrative-legal acts of Paul I reign, dedicated to the municipal government
L. Kuanchaleyeva
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