Documents et rapports
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Taxing consumption (anglais)
Domestic consumption in most countries is taxed through general sales taxes, excise taxes on specific commodities, and a variety of miscellaneous taxes on such services as hotel and transfers of property...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 44502 Date du document: 26 avril 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bird,Richard M.
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Taxing business (anglais)
Numerous distortions and costs are created as a result of corporate taxes. Choices with respect to organizational form (the incorporation decision), financial structure (debt-equity ratio), and dividend...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 44260 Date du document: 26 avril 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bird,Richard M.
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Fiscal policy for growth (anglais)
This brief discusses some implications of the recent Development Committee (DC) communique that entrusted the Bank with the development and operationalization of growth-oriented, country-specific approaches...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 40622 Date du document: 29 mars 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ley,Eduardo
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Growth and income convergence (anglais)
The Solow model of economic growth (Solow, 1956, Swan, 1956) concludes that poorer countries will tend to grow faster than richer ones-provided that countries share the same production function, savings...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 46268 Date du document: 1 janvier 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cuaresma,Jesus Crespo
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Trade and economic growth (anglais)
The degree of openness of a country tends to be found to be a robust determinant of growth in GDP per capita in cross-country and panel growth regressions. Furthermore, Ben-David (1996) shows that trade...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 46270 Date du document: 1 janvier 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cuaresma,Jesus Crespo
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Human capital and economic growth (anglais)
The positive relationship between years of education and income at the individual level is a well established empirical relationship. Decades of estimation of mincerian wage regressions have lead to a...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 46269 Date du document: 1 janvier 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Cuaresma,Jesus Crespo
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Cost-benefit analysis : evaluation criteria (anglais)
While only measures properly reflecting net societal benefits should be used to rank policies, several other measures also attempting to summarize the value of net flows are often presented -- i.e., the...
Type de document: Fiche Numéro du rapport: 40619 Date du document: 4 décembre 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Ley,Eduardo