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Illicit financial flows and their impacts on development: A way forward
Event | 1 Oct 2010
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.
Jonas Gahr Støre visits CMI
News | 8 Sep 2006
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.
Participation, representation and taxation in local governance in Angola
Project | Oct 2008 - Dec 2010
The projects' contribution will be to generate knowledge of one of the most crucial issues in Angolan local government and decentralisation ...
Angola
Tax and Public Finance
Main Research Topic
We study how governments collect and manage revenues to create better services for citizens in developing countries. In particular, we research the role ...
Ali Merima
Senior Researcher
Economist focusing on development, state capacity and taxation policy.
Africa
Wiig Arne
Senior Researcher
Key Qualifications
Wiig is an economist whose professional profile and research interests include: i) globalization including multinational ...
Entrepreneurship, human and social capital, international trade and poverty, foreign direct investment, industrial studies, corporate social responsibility, micro-finance/rural credit programmes, Asia: Bangladesh, Africa: Namibia, Botswana, Angola, Malawi, Ghana
Property Taxation in Developing Countries
CMI Brief | Mar 2017
Property tax (PT) raises on average revenues of less than 1% of GDP in developing countries. In many African countries it contributes far less ...
tax, finance, property tax, real estate, Tanzania, Africa
Non-resource taxation in a resource rich setting: A broader tax base will enhance tax compliance in Tanzania
CMI Brief | Dec 2015
Huge reservoirs of natural gas have been discovered offshore the southern coast of Tanzania. The country might become a large producer of gas, ...
Tax, compliance, natural resources, Tanzania
Tax reform and state building in a globalized world
Book Chapter | May 2015
How far has the recent global wave of tax reform contributed to state building in poorer countries? This chapter concludes that ...
Tax, tax reform, globalisation, state building, developing countries
Poor revenue forecasting: A major challenge for sound fiscal policy in Angola
Angola Brief | Feb 2014
Fiscal policy is the use of government revenue collection (taxation) and expenditure (spending) to monitor and influence the nation’s ...
Angola
Building taxpayer culture in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia: Achievements, challenges and policy recommendations
CMI Report | Jul 2012
The study examines measures that aim to encourage taxpayer compliance through taxpayer education and constructive engagement between the government ...
Taxation, Tax morale, Tax compliance, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia
Why collect local taxes in oil rich Angola? ... and the challenges of doing so
Angola Brief | Jun 2011
An effective tax system is required to implement and finance current government policies of diversifying the Angolan economy and providing quality ...
Angola
The tax systems in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia: capacity and constraints
CMI Report | Jun 2011
The purpose of this study is to systematise and analyse existing knowledge of the capacity and constraints of the tax systems in selected African ...
Taxation, tax administration, tax reform, resource curse, state-building, accountability, Mozambique, Tanzania, Zambia
Bribes, Taxes and Regulations: Business Constraints for Micro Enterprises in Tanzania
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2006
This paper analyses the business environment for micro enterprises in Tanzania based on survey data. The primary objective of the study is to ...
Small enterprise, Business constriants, Taxation, Corruption, Tanzania
Trust in public finance: Citizens' view on taxation by local authorities in Tanzania
Report in External Series | Jan 2004
Trust in public finance: Citizens' view on taxation by local authorities in Tanzania Odd-Helge Fjel
Africa: Tanzania
Introduction: The new politics of taxation and accountability in developing countries
Report in External Series | Jan 2002
Introduction: The new politics of taxation and accountability in developing countries Lise Rakner a
Between Oslo and al-Aqsa. Taxation and state formation in Palestine 1994-2000
CMI Report | Jan 2002
The state formation process in Palestine during the period 1994-2000, in contrast to the European experience, was not related to inter-state ...
Middle East: Palestine
Taxation, aid and democracy. An agenda for research in Africa
Report in External Series | Jan 2000
(CDR Working Paper 5:2000)
Taxation, coercion and donors. Local government tax enforcement in Tanzania
CMI Working Paper | Jan 2000
This paper presents three propositions about tax collection in local authorities in Tanzania. First, revenue performance depends on the degree ...
Africa: Tanzania
Taxation, coercion and donors. A study of local government tax enforcement in Tanzania
Report in External Series | Jan 1999
(Paper prepared for the CMI/ World Bank Conference "Local level institutions: Social capital for development, Bergen, 5-7 May 1999)
Africa: Tanzania