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POLICY PAPER

Sugar, Rum, and Tobacco: Domestic Resource Mobilization for Low-Income Countries through Excise Taxes
William D. Savedoff
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Ruth Lopert
January 13, 2020
The paper provides a comprehensive overview of issues relevant to using health taxes to raise revenues in low-income countries. The paper argues that in low-income countries, health taxes can raise enough revenue to make them worthwhile and that health taxes may be better candidates for mobilizing d...
Blog Post

Scope for a Grand Bargain to Reduce Tax Exemptions?
Sanjeev Gupta
January 07, 2020
The international community is continuously exhorting developing countries, particularly the low-income ones, to mobilize more revenues domestically, but could reducing tax concessions provide a "grand bargain" for developing countries?
Blog Post

Bolivia’s Antipoverty Successes Are Going to Face Funding Challenges Thanks to Falling Gas Prices
Kyle Navis
November 15, 2019
Bolivia has reduced poverty substantially over the past decade by taxing hydrocarbons to fund a generous social safety net, but low gas prices and export demand loom large.
CGD NOTE

Taxing “Bads”: An Overview of Research Initiatives
Ruth Lopert
November 12, 2019
This note outlines the organizations and research initiatives currently addressing taxation of tobacco, alcohol, and sugar-sweetened beverages—the “bads”—to help navigate the landscape of existing research and identify gaps and opportunities for further work.