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Publication - Working Paper
Consumption risk and human capital accumulation in India
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Event
International experience in tax policy design and enforcement
This IGC regional conference, co-hosted with the Zambia Ministry of Finance, will be comprised of a number of morning and afternoon sessions focused on international research in tax design and enforcement, presenting a series of research projects completed in the past two years and including panel discussions for researchers and African policymakers to share lessons learned...
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Publication - Project Report
Engagement with Punjab under CPEC: A proposed framework for industry
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Publication - Project Report
Where the rubber hits the road: A review of decentralisation in Myanmar and the roads sector
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Project
Improving teaching and learning: Experiments on teacher incentives and training in Uganda
In low-income countries, primary school students often fall far below grade level and primary dropout rates remain high. Further, in some countries, educators encourage their weaker students to dropout before reaching the end of primary school. These educators hope to avoid the negative attention that authorities direct to a school when its students perform poorly on the...
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Publication - Working Paper
Educator incentives and educational triage in rural primary schools
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Publication - Working Paper
Enforcement in Value Added Tax: Is third party verification effective?
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Publication - Growth Brief
Value Added Tax in developing countries: Lessons from recent research
The Value Added Tax has become one of the most important instruments of revenue mobilisation in the developing world. A recent and growing body of research highlights its strengths and some of the challenges it faces. Today, Value Added Taxes (VAT) exist in more than 160 countries, including in many developing countries that have modernised their tax systems in the past...
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Publication - Working Paper
Motivating bureaucrats: Group incentives and organisational performance in local governments
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Blog post
Do cash transfers make the poor work less?
Analysing the impact of cash transfers in Iran helps to dispel the myth that they encourage the poor to work less. Admittedly, these transfers occurred in the context of rising bread and energy prices, meaning the lessons are particularly important for oil-rich countries that subsidise energy. In December 2010, Iran raised prices for bread and energy products by factors...