Documents et rapports

Datos Filtrados de Paraisos Fiscales y Fiscalidad Tributaria en Paises en Desarrollo (espagnol)

The Impact of Tax Blacklisting (anglais)

This paper estimates the policy and economic impacts of a European Union–led effort to review and “blacklist” jurisdictions based on their compliance with international standards designed to curb corporate...

Property Tax Compliance in Tanzania : Can Nudges Help ? (anglais)

Low tax compliance in low- and middle-income countries around the world limits the ability of governments to offer effective public services. This paper reports the results of a randomly rolled out text...

Opening Pandora's Box : What the Latest Leaks Mean for the World Bank's Mission (anglais)

The Pandora Papers highlight a worldwide lack of transparency of information on who owns and controls what and where. Unfortunately, trusts and complex corporate structures are still an effective way to...

Opening Pandora's Box : What the Latest Leaks Mean for the World Bank's Mission (espagnol)

The Pandora Papers highlight a worldwide lack of transparency of information on who owns and controls what and where. Unfortunately, trusts and complex corporate structures are still an effective way to...

Illicit Financial Flows : Concepts, Measurement, and Evidence (anglais)

There is a growing consensus that the presence of illegal and harmful cross-border financial flows is one of the factors impeding economic and human development. In recent years, a new conceptual framework...

The Human Capital Project (arabe)

By improving their skills, health, knowledge, and resilience—their human capital—people can be more productive, flexible, and innovative. Human capital is a central driver of sustainable growth and poverty...

The Human Capital Project (espagnol)

By improving their skills, health, knowledge, and resilience—their human capital—people can be more productive, flexible, and innovative. Human capital is a central driver of sustainable growth and poverty...

The Human Capital Project (russe)

By improving their skills, health, knowledge, and resilience—their human capital—people can be more productive, flexible, and innovative. Human capital is a central driver of sustainable growth and poverty...

Le Projet sur le Capital Humain (français)

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The Human Capital Project (anglais)

By improving their skills, health, knowledge, and resilience—their human capital—people can be more productive, flexible, and innovative. Human capital is a central driver of sustainable growth and poverty...

Using Reminders and Nudges to Increase Property Tax Compliance in Dar es Salaam (anglais)

Following a decade of centralization, decentralization and re-centralization of the responsibility to collect property tax revenue, the Tanzania Revenue Authority (TRA) has struggled with high levels of...

The Effect of Increasing Human Capital Investment on Economic Growth and Poverty : A Simulation Exercise (anglais)

This paper examines the dynamic responses of income and poverty to increased investment in the human capital of new cohorts of workers, using a quantitative macroeconomic model with realistic demography...

Peer effects in the demand for property rights : experimental evidence from urban Tanzania (anglais)

This paper investigates the presence of endogenous peer effects in the adoption of formal property rights. Using data from a unique land titling experiment held in an unplanned settlement in Dar es Salaam...

The price of empowerment : experimental evidence on land titling in Tanzania (anglais)

This paper reports on a randomized field experiment that uses price incentives to address economic and gender inequality in land tenure formalization. During the 1990s and 2000s, nearly two dozen African...

Are poor slum-dwellers willing to pay for formal land title? : evidence from Dar es Salaam (anglais)

High levels of informality, from 70 percent to 80 percent in many developing country cities, increase poverty and make urbanization unsustainable. But it is not clear if this is due to lack of interest...