ATI Regional Workshop on Tax Expenditures (Asia): Key Takeaways
1-3 March 2023 | Manila, Philippines
Fiscal,
Workshops | Tags:
Tax Expenditures
The ATI Regional Workshop on tax expenditures with a focus on Asia brought together nearly 60 participants from 13 countries who shared a common commitment to enhancing national frameworks in the tax expenditure field.
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How to Ensure Climate and Environmental Risk Resilience of Central Bank Operations and the Financial System
23 November 2022 | Singapore
Monetary,
Roundtables | Tags:
Central Banks,
Financial Supervision
CEP together with AMRO and SEACEN co-hosted a roundtable for central bankers and financial supervisors to exchange experiences, ideas and best practices on how to account for climate and environmental risks in central banking and financial supervision. The discussions covered (1) the challenges of climate
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ATI Regional Workshop on Tax Expenditures (East Africa) – Estimation, Reporting and Evaluation
18-19 October 2022 | Nairobi, Kenya
Fiscal,
Workshops | Tags:
Tax Expenditures
With around 50 participants from 9 countries attending, the workshop proved the growing engagement of different stakeholders in the region concerning the topic of tax expenditures monitoring and reform.
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First ATI Regional Workshop on Tax Expenditures (West Africa)
27-28 July 2022 | Lagos, Nigeria
Fiscal,
Workshops | Tags:
Tax Expenditures
First in the series focused on West Africa, with around 70 participants from 18 countries attending, the First ATI Regional Workshop on Tax Expenditures held in Nigeria (Lagos, 27-28 July, 2022) provided insightful discussions and takeaways...
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Liberalizing Services Trade. Insights from the OECD STRI
17 February 2022 16:00-17:00 CET | Online
Panel,
Trade | Tags:
Services Trade,
Trade Liberalization
Global services trade regulations showed signs of liberalization in 2021, hitting a pause button on the steady rise in trade barriers witnessed in previous years. According to the recently released 2021 Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI), services liberalization outpaced new restrictions during 2021. This however
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Trade in Environmental Services – Lowering the Barriers, Seizing the Benefits
8 December 2021 10:00-11:30 CET | Online
Roundtables,
Trade | Tags:
Environmental Services,
Green Growth,
Services Trade
Major disruptions have often triggered technological revolutions and transitions to a new way of organizing production and consumption. The recovery from the Covid-19 crisis is such an opportunity for change. Technologies for a green recovery have matured over the past decade, and popular demand for
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Central Banks and Policy Coherence
23 November 2021 | Online
Monetary,
Roundtables | Tags:
Central Banks,
Financial Regulation,
Governing Finance
Modern central banks play an outsized role in our economic development through their central role in both monetary policy and financial regulation.
Many are now arguing that central banks should discharge their role in line with public policy on issues such as climate change, greening the
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Tax Expenditures and Domestic Revenue Mobilisation
9-11 November 2021 | Online
Fiscal,
Workshops | Tags:
Domestic Revenue Mobilization,
Informality,
Tax Expenditures,
Tax Reform
Tax expenditures (TEs) are tax benefits that governments use worldwide to pursue various policy goals such as attracting investment, boosting innovation and fighting poverty. TEs are costly, as they lower government revenue and the tax liability of the beneficiary. The global average of tax revenues
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Global Tax Expenditures Database – Official Launch
16 June 2021, 15.00-17.30 CET | Online
Conferences,
Fiscal | Tags:
Inequality,
Sustainability,
Tax Expenditures,
Tax Reform
The Council on Economic Policies (CEP) and the German Development Institute / Deutsches Institut für Entwicklungspolitik (DIE) have launched the «Global Tax Expenditures Database» (GTED): www.GTED.net with an online conference on 16 June 2021. The key findings of the GTED Flagship report presented at
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Digital Trade Policies – Charting a Way Towards More Transparency
3 June, 2021 15.00-16.00 CET | Online
Panel,
Trade | Tags:
Digitalization,
Trade Policy
The digital transformation of economic activities, including international trade, has accelerated during the Covid-19 crisis. Consequently, policies affecting trade in the digital economy have gained prominence in the WTO as well as regional trade agreements. The Joint Statement Initiative (JSI) on e-commerce that is currently
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