Sovereign Rents and the Quality of Tax Policy and Administration

The availability of windfall revenues from natural resource exports or foreign aid potentially weakens governments' incentives to design efficient tax systems. Cross-country data for developing countries provide evidence for this hypothesis, u...

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Main Author: Knack, Stephen
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
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Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2008/11/10002285/sovereign-rents-quality-tax-policy-administration
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/6353