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ABSTRACT Amid rising food and fertilizer prices, understanding farmers' policy preferences is critical for effective crisis response. We use best‐worst scaling experiment to assess Kenyan mobile‐owning crop farmers' preferences for government support under high and normal price scenarios.
Mywish K. Maredia +4 more
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Estimating tax effort: new evidence from a novel dataset
We provide new evidence on countries’ tax effort – the gap between collected and predicted tax revenue – based on a self-constructed panel of 114 countries, covering the period from 1995 to 2020. We apply the stochastic frontier model of Kumbhakar et al.
Tatul Hayruni +2 more
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FINANCIAL CONSOLIDATION OF THE ADMINISTRATIVE-TERRITORIAL ENTITY IN THE LIGHT OF DECENTRALIZATION [PDF]
„Should we head towards ‘self-government’ required by many of the participants, would that be a selfgovernmentof the citizens or the elect representatives?
Tatiana MANOLE, Alexandru STRATAN
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Sustainable Productivity Growth in Agriculture: The Role of Shifts in R&D Investments and Technology
ABSTRACT The objective of the paper is to evaluate the long‐term prospects of sustainable productivity growth linked to plausible assumptions on public agricultural R&D investments as the key productivity driver. Second, it investigates the role of changing R&D focus from yield maximization to input saving technologies (fertilizers and pesticides). The
Zuzana Smeets Křístková +4 more
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The purpose of this article is to estimate the income elasticity and tax capacity of Khuzestan province for policy-making and regional planning based on tax pay ability.
Omid Hajati +3 more
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Building on previous studies, we propose a robust estimation strategy to uncover the causal effects of tax administration strength on tax revenue in 121 countries over the period 2014–2022. Our novel approach utilizes a unique expert survey to construct an Operational Strength Index of tax administration, using the International Survey on Revenue ...
Jean-Marc Atsebi +2 more
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The State Capacity Ceiling on Tax Rates: Evidence From Randomized Tax Abatements in the DRC
This paper investigates how tax rates and tax enforcement jointly impact fiscal capacity in low‐income countries. We study a policy experiment in the D.R. Congo that randomly assigned 38,028 property owners to the status quo tax rate or to a rate reduction.
Bergeron, Augustin +2 more
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On the Economics of US Agricultural Policy
ABSTRACT This paper presents an economic analysis of US agricultural policy, building on a modified version of Gardner's efficient redistribution. We argue that agricultural policy is motivated as an attempt to implement an efficient redistribution scheme that redistributes income toward farmers who, as a group, have been adversely affected by ...
Jean‐Paul Chavas
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Building Tax Capacity in Developing Countries
The agenda for the Third International Conference on Financing for Development suggests there will be less focus on aid, and more on how developing countries can generate their own financial resources for development.
McCluskey, Rhiannon +5 more
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Local Government’s Tax Practices From A Cooperative Federalism Perspective
This study analyses intergovernmental revenue policies and its practices in Nepal, specifically focusing on the role of local governments (LGs) in tax administration.
Raj Kumar Dhungana, Keshav Kumar Acharya
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