Does conditionality in IMF-supported programs promote revenue reform?
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- Ernesto Crivelli & Sanjeev Gupta, 2016. "Does conditionality in IMF-supported programs promote revenue reform?," International Tax and Public Finance, Springer;International Institute of Public Finance, vol. 23(3), pages 550-579, June.
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Keywords
Conditionality; Revenue administration; Low-income developing countries; Fund-supported adjustment programs; Tax collection; Tax reforms; Tax revenues; Tax revenue; structural conditionality; revenue; tax; taxes; revenues; goods; Models with Panel Data; International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions; General;JEL classification:
- C33 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Multiple or Simultaneous Equation Models; Multiple Variables - - - Models with Panel Data; Spatio-temporal Models
- E62 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Macroeconomic Policy, Macroeconomic Aspects of Public Finance, and General Outlook - - - Fiscal Policy
- F33 - International Economics - - International Finance - - - International Monetary Arrangements and Institutions
- H2 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
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