Taxation in Developing Countries : : Six Case Studies and Policy Implications / / ed. by Roger Gordon.

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• MitwirkendeR: Cetrángolo, Oscar,; Eissa, Nada O.,; Giuberti, Ana Carolina,; Gordon, Roger H.,; Gómez Sabaini, Juan Carlos,; Jack, William,; Jun, Joosung,; Koulayev, Sergei,; Oliveira, José Teófilo,; Rao, M. Govinda,; Rao, R. Kavita,; Stiglitz, Joseph E.,
• HerausgeberIn: Gordon, Roger,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2010]; ©2010
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Series: Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia: Challenges in Development and Globalization
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (352 p.) :; 36 illus., 64 tables

Taxes are a crucial policy issue, especially in developing countries. Just recently, proposals to raise middle-class taxes toppled the Bolivian government, and plans to extend or increase the value-added tax caused political unrest in Ecuador and Mexico. Despite the impact of tax policy on developin...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• INITIATIVE FOR POLICY DIALOGUE AT COLUMBIA
• CONTENTS
• ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
• ACRONYMS
• Introduction: Overview of Tax Policy in Developing Countries
• CHAPTER 1. Development- Oriented Tax Policy
• CHAPTER 2. Taxes and Development: Experiences of India vs. China, and Lessons for Other Developing Countries
• CHAPTER 3. Tax Policy in Argentina: Between Solvency and Emergency
• CHAPTER 4. Tax System Reform in India
• CHAPTER 5. History of Rus sian VAT
• CHAPTER. 6 Tax Reform in Kenya: Policy and Administrative Issues
• CHAPTER 7. Korea's Tax System: A Growth- Oriented Choice
• CHAPTER 8. Tax Structure and Tax Burden in Brazil: 1980- 2004
• CONTRIBUTORS
• INDEX