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WORKING PAPERS
May 21, 2015
Whether the poor are helped or hurt by taxes and transfers is generally determined by comparing
income distributions before and after fiscal policy using stochastic dominance tests and measures
of progressivity and horizontal inequity. We formally show that these tools can fail to capture an
impo...
WORKING PAPERS
May 19, 2015
Both academic research and public policy debate around tax havens and offshore finance typically suffer from a lack of definitional consistency. Unsurprisingly then, there is little agreement about which jurisdictions ought to be considered as tax havens—or which policy measures would result i...
WORKING PAPERS
May 05, 2015
Governments, donors, and public sector agencies are seeking productive ways to ‘crowd in’ private sector involvement and capital to tackle international development challenges. The financial instruments that are used to create incentives for private sector involvement are typically those...
WORKING PAPERS
July 21, 2011
This paper examines the efficacy of loan programs in the development of domestic enterprises in the immediate aftermath of conflicts. The author explores whether the strategies employed by such programs are effective and if there are opportunities for improving the outcomes of similar projects in po...
WORKING PAPERS
May 31, 2011
This paper provides a review of the rationale for and against SME initiatives and an overview of existing targeted USG and IFI programs. The authors offer several new incremental options for private foundations to establish focused partnerships with donor agencies in their efforts to assist SMEs in ...