Tag: Development

Minimum Standards for Tax Expenditure Reporting: FfD4 Side Event in Seville

3 July 2025 |10.30-12.00 CET | Seville | Open to registered participants
Conferences, Fiscal | Tags: Development, Domestic Revenue Mobilization, Tax Expenditures
Governments worldwide use preferential tax treatments – called tax expenditures – to pursue different policy objectives. These measures cause huge immediate public revenue losses while their effectiveness is often in doubt. ... continue reading

Fifth Virtual Meeting of the Community of Practice on Tax Expenditures

5 June 2025 | 13.00-14.30 CET | Online
Fiscal, Workshops | Tags: Brazil, Development, Domestic Revenue Mobilization, Tax Expenditures
In the context of the Fourth Financing for Development process (FfD4), the meeting highlighted lessons learnt regarding domestic revenue mobilisation in developing countries. ... continue reading

Driving Digital Transformation – Lessons from Seven Developing Countries

, , and | 27 April 2023
Books and Journals | Tags: Development, Digital Economy
The book opens a window into the real, messy world of policy innovation, dialogue, consensus building, and implementation. ... continue reading

The Dark Side of the Moon. Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis in Developing Economies

| 25 March 2020
Fiscal, Blog | Tags: Covid-19, Development, Inequality, Informality
Besides China and Iran, the impact of the coronavirus has until now been most severe in advanced economies including France, Germany, Italy, South Korea, Spain and the US. This is unlikely to remain so. As the virus continues its spread around the world it will ... continue reading

Multinational tax avoidance in developing countries

, and | 7 April 2016
Fiscal, Blog | Tags: Corporate Taxes, Development, Tax Avoidance
In recent years many global firms—including Starbucks, Google, and Amazon—have come under fire for avoiding paying taxes in one country by shifting their profits to a country with lower tax rates. ... continue reading