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Stacking up the Benefits: Lessons from India's Digital Journey

Author/Editor: Cristian Alonso, Tanuj Bhojwani, Emine Hanedar, Dinar Prihardini, Gerardo Uņa, Kateryna Zhabska.

Release Date:March, 2023

Foundational digital public infrastructure (DPI), consisting of unique digital identification, payments system and data exchange layer has the potential to support the transformation of the economy more...



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The Distributional Impact of a Carbon Tax in Asia and the Pacific

Author/Editor: Cristian Alonso, Joey Kilpatrick.

Release Date:June, 2022

While a carbon tax is widely acknowledged as an efficient policy to mitigate climate change, adoption has lagged. Part of the challenge resides in the distributional implications of a carbon tax and more...



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Enhancing Tax Compliance in the Dominican Republic Through Risk-based VAT Invoice Management

Author/Editor: Cristian Alonso, Ledys Feliz, Patricia Gil, Miguel Pecho.

Release Date:September, 2021

Invoices document economic transactions and are thus critical to assess tax liabilities. We study a reform in the Dominican Republic that aimed to integrate invoice management into a broader, more more...



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Fiscal Policies to Address Climate Change in Asia and the Pacific

Author/Editor: Era Dabla-Norris, James Daniel, Masahiro Nozaki, Cristian Alonso, Vybhavi Balasundharam, Matthieu Bellon, Chuling Chen, David Corvino, Joey Kilpatrick.

Release Date:March, 2021

Climate change is one of the greatest challenges facing policymakers worldwide, and the stakes are particularly high for Asia and the Pacific. This paper analyzes how fiscal policy can address more...



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Will the AI Revolution Cause a Great Divergence?

Author/Editor: Cristian Alonso, Andrew Berg, Siddharth Kothari, Chris Papageorgiou, Sidra Rehman.

Release Date:September, 2020

This paper considers the implications for developing countries of a new wave of technological change that substitutes pervasively for labor. It makes simple and plausible assumptions: the AI more...



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Reducing and Redistributing Unpaid Work: Stronger Policies to Support Gender Equality

Author/Editor: Cristian Alonso, Mariya Brussevich, Era Dabla-Norris, Yuko Kinoshita, Kalpana Kochhar.

Release Date:October, 2019

Unpaid work, such as caring for children, the elderly, and household chores represents a significant share of economic activity but is not counted as part of GDP. Women disproportionately shoulder more...



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The Future of Work in Sub-Saharan Africa

Author/Editor: Aidar Abdychev, Cristian Alonso, Emre Alper, Dominique Desruelle, Siddharth Kothari, Yun Liu, Mathilde Perinet, Sidra Rehman, Axel Schimmelpfennig, Preya Sharma.

Release Date:December, 2018

Far-reaching changes in technology, climate, and global economic integration are transforming the world of work in ways that we do not yet fully understand. Will the swift technological advances of more...



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