A Poverty-Focused Evaluation of Commodity Tax Options

The difficulties faced by many developing countries in raising revenue from direct taxes have forced them to rely heavily on indirect taxes to finance development interventions. The purpose of this paper is to show how to identify socially desirabl...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Essama-Nssah, B.
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
GDP
Online Access:http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2007/06/7694658/poverty-focused-evaluation-commodity-tax-options
http://hdl.handle.net/10986/7071