Raymond Baker, head of Global Financial Integrity, discusses how businesspeople, criminals, and kleptocrats perfect the same techniques to shift funds-transfer pricing, false documentation, fake corporations, secrecy jurisdictions, and other tricks -and how these negatively affect developing countries.

Tuesday 12 September, the Norwegian Minsiter of Foreign Affairs will visit CMI to discuss various development challenges and its implications for Norwegian foreign policy. On the agenda are topics such as aid and poverty, peacebuilding in post-conflict areas and Norwegian foreign policy in Africa with a particular focus on corruption in emergencies, corporate social responsibility for Norwegian oil companies, and the role of courts in new democracies.

The projects' contribution will be to generate knowledge of one of the most crucial issues in Angolan local government and decentralisation ...

We study how governments collect and manage revenues to create better services for citizens in developing countries. In particular, we research the role ...

Economist focusing on development, state capacity and taxation policy.

Key Qualifications Wiig is an economist whose professional profile and research interests include: i) globalization  including  multinational ...

Property tax (PT) raises on average revenues of less than 1% of GDP in developing countries. In many African countries it contributes far less ...

Huge reservoirs of natural gas have been discovered offshore the southern coast of Tanzania. The country might become a large producer of gas, ...

How far has the recent global wave of tax reform contributed to state building in poorer countries? This chapter concludes that ...

Fiscal policy is the use of government revenue collection (taxation) and expenditure (spending) to monitor and influence the nation’s ...

The study examines measures that aim to encourage taxpayer compliance through taxpayer education and constructive engagement between the government ...

An effective tax system is required to implement and finance current government policies of diversifying the Angolan economy and providing quality ...

The purpose of this study is to systematise and analyse existing knowledge of the capacity and constraints of the tax systems in selected African ...

This paper analyses the business environment for micro enterprises in Tanzania based on survey data. The primary objective of the study is to ...

Trust in public finance: Citizens' view on taxation by local authorities in Tanzania Odd-Helge Fjel

Introduction: The new politics of taxation and accountability in developing countries Lise Rakner a

The state formation process in Palestine during the period 1994-2000, in contrast to the European experience, was not related to inter-state ...

(CDR Working Paper 5:2000)

This paper presents three propositions about tax collection in local authorities in Tanzania. First, revenue performance depends on the degree ...

(Paper prepared for the CMI/ World Bank Conference "Local level institutions: Social capital for development, Bergen, 5-7 May 1999)