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Scaling Up Quality Infrastructure Investment

Author/Editor: Olivier Bizimana, Laura Jaramillo, Saji Thomas, Jiae Yoo.

Release Date:April, 2021

South Asia needs large infrastructure investments to achieve its development goals, and public investment can also support the Covid-19 recovery. Regression estimates that account for the quantity more...



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Growing Pains : Is Latin America Prepared for Population Aging?

Author/Editor: Lorenzo U Figliuoli, Valentina Flamini, Misael Galdamez, Frederic Lambert, Mike Li, Bogdan Lissovolik, Rosalind Mowatt, Jaume Puig, Alexander D Klemm, Mauricio Soto, Saji Thomas, Christoph Freudenberg, Anna Orthofer.

Release Date:April, 2018

This paper estimates the fiscal costs of population aging in Latin America and provides policy recommendations on reforms needed to make these costs manageable. Although Latin American societies are more...



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National Insurance Scheme Reforms in the Caribbean

Author/Editor: Koffie Ben Nassar, Joel Chiedu Okwuokei, Mike Li, Timothy Robinson, Saji Thomas.

Release Date:October, 2016

Weighed down by population aging, slow economic growth, and high unemployment, National Insurance Schemes in the Caribbean are projected to run substantial deficits and deplete their assets in the more...



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Inward and Outward Spillovers in the SACU Area

Author/Editor: Jorge Iván Canales Kriljenko, Farayi Gwenhamo, Saji Thomas.

Release Date:January, 2013

Spillovers from South Africa into the other members of the Souther Africa Customs Union (known as the BLNS for Botstwana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Swaziland) are substantial reflecting sizeable real and more...



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Mining Taxation : An Application to Mali

Author/Editor: Saji Thomas.

Release Date:May, 2010

Mali’s gold sector is an enclave with weak forward and backward linkages with the rest of the economy. Given the predominance of the fiscal transmission channel, it is important that the design more...



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Forestry Taxation in Africa : The Case of Liberia

Author/Editor: Saji Thomas, Arnim Schwidrowski.

Release Date:August, 2005

Countries generally tax the forestry sector to achieve the twin objectives of revenue maximization and sustainability of logging levels. In an ideal world of perfect markets and information, auctions more...



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Poverty in a Wealthy Economy : The Case of Nigeria

Author/Editor: Sudharshan Canagarajah, Saji Thomas.

Release Date:July, 2002

This paper describes the nature and evolution of poverty in Nigeria between 1985 and 1992. It highlights the potential wealth of the Nigerian economy and examines how the economic policies pursued in more...



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