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Managing Fiscal Risks from State-Owned Enterprises

Author/Editor: Anja Baum, Paulo Medas, Alberto Soler, Mouhamadou Sy.

Release Date:September, 2020

Ensuring that state-owned enterprises (SOEs) are efficient and managed prudently is important for economic and social reasons. It is also crucial to contain fiscal risks and reduce the burden on more...



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Vietnam's Development Success Story and the Unfinished SDG Agenda

Author/Editor: Anja Baum.

Release Date:February, 2020

Despite starting as one of the poorest countries in the mid-1980s, Vietnam has achieved rapid developmental progress, reaching lower middle-income status in 2010. In line with rapid economic growth, more...



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Governance and State-Owned Enterprises: How Costly is Corruption?

Author/Editor: Anja Baum, Clay Hackney, Paulo Medas, Mouhamadou Sy.

Release Date:November, 2019

State-owned enterprises (SOEs) are present in key sectors of the economies around the world. While they can provide an important public service, there is widespread concern that their activities are more...



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Tax Revenue Mobilization Episodes in Emerging Markets and Low-Income Countries: Lessons from a New Dataset

Author/Editor: Bernardin Akitoby, Anja Baum, Clay Hackney, Olamide Harrison, Keyra Primus, Veronique Salins.

Release Date:November, 2018

How do countries mobilize large tax revenue—defined as an average increase in the tax-to-GDP ratio of 0.5 percent per year over three years or more? To answer this question, we build a novel more...



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Corruption, Taxes and Compliance

Author/Editor: Anja Baum, Sanjeev Gupta, Elijah Kimani, Sampawende J Tapsoba.

Release Date:November, 2017

This paper revisits the effects of corruption on the state’s capacity to raise revenue, building on the existing empirical literature using new and more disaggregated data. We use a comprehensive more...



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Can They Do It All? Fiscal Space in Low-Income Countries

Author/Editor: Anja Baum, Andrew Hodge, Aiko Mineshima, Marialuz Moreno Badia, Rene Tapsoba.

Release Date:May, 2017

According to U.N. estimates, low-income countries will have to increase their annual public spending by up to 30 percent of GDP to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), more...



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Fiscal Multipliers and the State of the Economy

Author/Editor: Anja Baum, Marcos Poplawski-Ribeiro, Anke Weber.

Release Date:December, 2012

Only a few empirical studies have analyzed the relationship between fiscal multipliers and the underlying state of the economy. This paper investigates this link on a country-by-country basis for the more...



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