The Dark Side of the Moon. Responding to the COVID-19 Crisis in Developing Economies
Agustin Redonda | 25 March 2020
Blog,
Fiscal | 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
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Multinational tax avoidance in developing countries
Niels Johannesen,
Thomas Tørsløv and
Ludvig Wier | 7 April 2016
Blog,
Fiscal | 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.
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At Whose Service? Jobs and Services Trade in Developing Countries
Johannes Schwarzer | 17 November 2014
Blog,
Trade | Tags:
Development,
Employment,
Poverty,
Services Trade,
WTO Services-led Employment Growth? Creating jobs to match their ever increasing, relatively young labor forces is probably the biggest challenge that developing countries are facing in the medium term. Reducing unemployment is perhaps the most effective tool to achieve a wide range of development goals, such
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Growth Escalators and Growth Convergence
Ejaz Ghani | 5 September 2014
Blog,
Trade | Tags:
Development,
Services Trade This article was first published on VoxEU.org and is republished with permission. The literature on global growth convergence and divergence is vast and deep. And it is still evolving. Some have argued that global growth is actually diverging across countries. Pritchett (1977) called this “divergence,
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