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Strengthening Public Expenditure Efficiency: Investment and Social Spending in Bulgaria

Author/Editor: Jean-Jacques Hallaert, Keyra Primus.

Release Date:May, 2022

The scope for increasing public spending to meet Bulgaria's development needs is limited by low revenue. Increasing the efficiency of spending is, therefore, crucial. This paper discusses how this more...



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Crypto, Corruption, and Capital Controls: Cross-Country Correlations

Author/Editor: Marwa Alnasaa, Nikolay Gueorguiev, Jiro Honda, Eslem Imamoglu, Paolo Mauro, Keyra Primus, Dmitriy L Rozhkov.

Release Date:March, 2022

Empirical investigation of the factors underlying the growing usage of crypto-assets is in its infancy, owing to data limitations. In this paper, we present a simple cross-country analysis drawing on more...



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Avoid a Fall or Fly Again: Turning Points of State Fragility

Author/Editor: Olusegun Ayodele Akanbi, Nikolay Gueorguiev, Jiro Honda, Paulomi Mehta, Kenji Moriyama, Keyra Primus, Mouhamadou Sy.

Release Date:May, 2021



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Tax Revenues in Fragile and Conflict-Affected States—Why Are They Low and How Can We Raise Them?

Author/Editor: Bernardin Akitoby, Jiro Honda, Keyra Primus.

Release Date:July, 2020

Raising revenues has been a formidable challenge for fragile and conflict-affected states (FCS), a fact confirmed once again in the COVID-19 crisis. Nonetheless, achieving sizable gains in tax more...



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Case Studies in Tax Revenue Mobilization in Low-Income Countries

Author/Editor: Bernardin Akitoby, Jiro Honda, Hiroaki Miyamoto, Keyra Primus, Mouhamadou Sy.

Release Date:May, 2019

How can Low-Income Countries (LICs) enhance tax revenue collection to finance their vast development needs? We address this question by analyzing seven tax reform experiences in LICs (Burkina Faso, 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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Fiscal Rules for Resource Windfall Allocation : The Case of Trinidad and Tobago

Author/Editor: Keyra Primus.

Release Date:September, 2016

Managing resource revenues is a critical policy issue for small open resource-rich countries. This paper uses an open economy dynamic stochastic general equilibrium model to analyze the transmission more...



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The Effectiveness of Monetary Policy in Small Open Economies : An Empirical Investigation

Author/Editor: Keyra Primus.

Release Date:September, 2016

This paper examines the relative effectiveness of the use of indirect and direct monetary policy instruments in Barbados, Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, by estimating a restricted Vector more...



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