Tax Challenges Facing Developing Countries

Challenges Facing the Construction Industry in Developing Countries

A successful construction industry is essential to us all. Benefits from efficiently constructed buildings and infrastructures are well known and we all benefit from them. If we are prepared to challenge the waste and poor performance arising from existing practices and focus efforts on delivering the value that our customers need we can attain and sustain continuos improvement in the industry....

Tax Structures in Developing Countries:

Tax policies seen in developing countries are puzzling on many dimensions, given the sharp contrast between these policies and both those seen in developed countries and those forecast in the optimal tax literature. In this paper, we explore how forecasted policies change if firms can successfully evade taxes by conducting all business in cash, thereby avoiding any use of the financial sector. ...

Challenges facing venture capitalists in developing economies

The challenges facing Third World countries in banning tobacco.

Tobacco is one of the most common hazardous drugs and is widely available in almost all countries. The harmful effects of tobacco are only too common and are well known to all public health workers: tobacco smoking is responsible for lung cancer, chronic respiratory diseases, smoker’s cough, ischaemic heart disease, vascular problems, low-birthweight babies, and many other problems. What are pe...

Cancer in developing countries: challenges and solutions.

In 2002 there were 5.1 million new cases of cancer in developed countries and 5.8 million new cases in developing countries. However, by 2020 it is predicted that the majority of the 15–20 million new cases of cancer will occur in developing countries [1, 2]. A third of these cancers are preventable and another third are treatable if detected early. The most prevalent cancers in developing coun...