Taxation policy and development
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Taxation has been neglected in development discussions, allowing mistakes such as the failure to ensure revenue stability during trade liberalisation. Countries exhibit different priorities among revenue creation, redistribution and representation, seriously undermining the value of the limited consensus view. ABOUT THE AUTHOR Alex Cobham is the Director of the OCGG Economy Section and a Supernumerary Fellow in economics at St Anne’s College in Oxford. He can be contacted at alex.cobham@ oxfordgovernance.org ABOUT THE OCGG The Oxford Council on Good Governance is an independent, non-partisan, and non-profi t think tank based at Oxford and other world leading universities that gives actionable advice to high-level policy-makers based on cutting-edge research. For more information, please visit www.oxfordgovernance.org Taxation policy and development
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