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The dynamics of domestic revenue mobilization across four decades

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  • Annalena Oppel
  • Kyle McNabb
  • Daniel Chachu

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We utilize the recently updated UNU-WIDER Government Revenue Dataset, which covers key indicators on tax and non-tax revenues for 196 countries since the 1980s, to study the dynamics of government revenue tax collection across selected periods from 1985 up to the most recent available year (2019). In doing so, we propose a new approach that highlights the direction, intensity, and continuity of trends in total tax and total revenue collection, with implications for aid, fiscal policy, and sustainable development.

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  • Annalena Oppel & Kyle McNabb & Daniel Chachu, 2022. "The dynamics of domestic revenue mobilization across four decades," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2022-1, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
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