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Informal taxation and revenue mobilisation in Myanmar
Taxation is essential to provide governments with the funds needed to deliver the public goods and services necessary for the social and economic development of a country. However, in Myanmar, the levels of formal taxation are among the lowest in the world, according to the IMF. These low levels are the subject of regularly commentary in the public sphere, often accompanied...
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Publication - Project Report
Informal payments and contributions by businesses in Myanmar
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Jared Bissinger
Jared Bissinger is a development economist and independent consultant specialising in private sector development and the business environment in Myanmar.
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Publication - Working Paper
Organising for entitlement: A randomised evaluation of a homestead land rights initiative in Bihar, India
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Publication - Working Paper
The vicious circle of blackouts and revenue collection in developing economies: Evidence from Ghana
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Belinda Yebuah-Dwamena
Belinda is General Manager of Management Information Systems at Electricity Company of Ghana.
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Brittany Street
Brittany is a PhD Candidate in the Department of Economics at Texas A&M University. Her research focuses on labour and public economics, particularly the economics of crime and education.
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Adhieu Majok
Adhieu Majok has a masters in microbiology and an interest in public health. Adhieu is a South Sudan analyst, writer and activist, and her current interests include promotion of peace, girls and women's rights and youth inclusion in South Sudanese politics.
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The struggle for South Sudan: Challenges of security and state formation
South Sudan, the world's youngest country, has experienced a rocky start to its existence as an independent nation. Less than three years after gaining independence in 2011 following a violent liberation war, the country slid back into conflict. Today the present crisis of war, economic downturns, human rights violations, state fragility, and internally displaced persons in...
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Lovise Aalen
Political scientist focusing on democracy, governance and women's employment and empowement in the Horn of Africa Lovise Aalen, research director at CMI, is responsible for the research groups Humanitarianism, Aid and Borders (HAB) and Democracy and Governance. She has researched African politics for the last two decades (including several long term fieldworks), and has...