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Latest Move against Tax Avoidance Good but Not Great

September 22, 2014
OECD countries and others have agreed on a new standard for multinational companies to report their economic activities, including profits and tax payments, on a country-by-country basis.
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Bad Tax Data, Bad Tax Research? Introducing the New Government Revenue Dataset

September 16, 2014
Did you know that Iran had tax revenues greater than its GDP for three years in the late 1980s? Or at least that’s the impression you’d get if you — like many researchers — were to combine tax data from the IMF’s Government Financial Statistics and the GDP series from t...
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Self‐Selection into Credit Markets: Evidence from Agriculture in Mali - Working Paper 377

Lori Beaman et al.
September 15, 2014
We partnered with a micro-lender in Mali to randomize credit offers at the village level. Then, in no-loan control villages, we gave cash grants to randomly selected households. These grants led to higher agricultural investments and profits, thus showing that liquidity constraints bind with respect...
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Three Illicit Flows Targets for the Post-2015 Framework

September 09, 2014
There is broad consensus on the need for the post-2015 successor framework to the Millennium Development Goals to respond to the challenge of illicit financial flows (IFF).