'Complex tax systems cut tax revenues for government and make it very hard to assess the true tax burden on firms, says a new report launched by the World Bank Group and PricewaterhouseCoopers.
The report presents quantitative indicators on the tax rates, payment frequency, and time to comply with taxes compared across 175 economies - from Afghanistan to Zimbabwe. Top reformers are identified and best practices in how to reform tax regulations are highlighted. This report gives policymakers more...
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'This publication from the Independent Evaluation Group examines IFC and the World Bank's support for environmental sustainability from 1990 to 2007.
While there are difficulties in comparing the experience in the public and private sectors, the report assesses the Bank Group's effectiveness as a whole. It also attempts to identify the main constraints and suggests ways to enhance the Bank Group's effectiveness in coming years.'
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'The OPEN system publishes on the Internet an array of information relating to municipal government services, permits and licenses.'
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This paper examines the impact of reducing corruption and improving transparency to lower trade costs in the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation region.
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'This report seeks to disentangle and analyse the relationship between indicators of press freedom, economic liberty and economic development in Latin America. It considers press freedom and economic development in a historical perspective, and also analyses recent rankings of press and economic freedoms.'
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'This paper reports on the latest update of the Worldwide Governance Indicators (WGI) research project covering 212 countries and territories and measuring six dimensions of governance between 1996 and 2006: voice and accountability, political stability and absence of violence, government effectiveness, regulatory quality, rule of law, and control of corruption. This latest set of aggregate indicators are based on hundreds of specific and disaggregated individual variables measuring various dime more...
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Measuring corruption in Eastern Europe and Central Asia : a critique of the cross-country indicators
'This paper assesses corruption levels and trends among countries in the transition countries of Eastern Europe and Central Asia (ECA) based on data from several sources that are both widely used and cover most or all countries in the region. Data from firm surveys tend to show improvement in most types of administrative corruption, but little change in 'state capture' in the region. Broader, subjective corruption indicators tend to show somewhat greater improvement in ECA than in non-ECA countr more...
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