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Improving Tax Compliance in Developing Economies: Evidence from Bangladesh

Working paper 1 Dec 2012 State and Political Economy

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  • Status-based taxation: A proposal to increase tax revenue collection

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Nasiruddin Ahmed

Policy Advisor, International Growth Centre

Raj Chetty

Bloomberg Professor of Economics, Harvard University

Ahmed Mushfiq Mobarak

Jerome Kasoff ’54 Professor of Management and Economics, Yale University

Aminur Rahman

Lecturer, University of Virginia

Monica Singhal

Professor of Economics, University of California - Davis
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