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Apr
20
2022
12:00—1:15 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) / 5:00—6:15pm British Summer Time (BST)
April 12, 2022
This event will discuss the steps to better manage tax expenditures and draw on the two recent studies on the topic by the International Budget Partnership (IBP) and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).
May
4
2022
VIRTUAL
9:00—10:00 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada) / Thursday, May 5, 9:00 -10:00 AM Manila Time
April 11, 2022
The 2022 Asian Development Outlook highlights the challenge of domestic revenue mobilization including from corrective health taxes on tobacco, alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverages in developing Asia.
WORKING PAPERS
April 06, 2022
This paper discusses the evolution of key taxes in the past 20 years in developing Asia and fiscal challenges that these countries face in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. It presents estimates of tax capacity and tax potential and discusses the productivity of key taxes in the region. The paper find...
Apr
13
2022
VIRTUAL
2:00—3:15 PM Eastern Time (US & Canada)
April 01, 2022
The war in Ukraine is adversely affecting economic growth prospects and inflation globally. But the impact on Latin America is mixed. Some countries in the region are benefiting from high prices on the commodities they export, while net commodity importers are suffering a negative shock.
CGD NOTES
March 03, 2022
The COVID-19 pandemic has transformed the global vaccine manufacturing landscape, with capacity more than doubling in the past 18 months. Before the pandemic, manufacturers produced an estimated total of five billion vaccine doses each year. In 2021, manufacturers produced 12 billion doses of C...
Blog Post
February 24, 2022
Last week, the central bank of Chile became the 9th member of the Latin American Reserve Fund (known by its Spanish acronym, FLAR), Latin America’s regional lender of last resort. This is great news for the pursuit of financial and economic stability in the region. Here is why.
POLICY PAPERS
February 15, 2022
As the global financial community considers how to extend debt relief accompanied by IMF adjustment programs to vulnerable low-income countries, the issue of policy conditions for fiscal adjustment will inevitably arise. This paper considers the effectiveness of conditions related to domestic revenu...
Blog Post
January 13, 2022
A massive leak that disrupted Peru’s national teacher selection test threatens the country’s impressive improvements in learning.
Over the eight years prior to the pandemic, the most respected international tests show that Peru made more progress in education than any other country in Latin...