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      What COVID-19 can tell us about the state
      – A global look at the first year of the pandemic
      Rachel M. Gisselquist, Andrea Vaccaro - Oxford University Press , 2025
      From the book: How States Respond to Crisis
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      Nicaragua’s puzzling pandemic response
      – The undermining role of vertical health policies in health systems
      Mateo C. Jarquín - Oxford University Press , 2025
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      The devasting effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on Peru
      – The undermining role of vertical health policies in health systems
      Camila Gianella - Oxford University Press , 2025
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      Decentralization, state capacity and inequality:
      – Explaining COVID-19 outcomes in Bolivia
      Calla Hummel - Oxford University Press , 2025
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      Local governance and COVID-19's health impact
      – Evidence from Vietnam
      Duc Anh Dang - Oxford University Press , 2025
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      Harnessing residual capacity: Ghana's struggle against health system constraints in the COVID-19 response
      Kofi Takyi Asante - Oxford University Press , 2025
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      How States Respond to Crisis
      – Pandemic Governance Across the Global South
      Rachel M. Gisselquist, Andrea Vaccaro - Oxford University Press , 2025
      BOOK IN PRODUCTION | SCHEDULED FOR PUBLICATION FEBRUARY 2025We expect the state to matter in times of crisis to better provide for and protect their populations. But how is it, precisely, that the quality of the state matters? This book speaks to this question through comparative study of how...
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      Journal Article This peer-reviewed research is available free of charge. UNU-WIDER believes that research is a global public good and supports Open Access.
      A policy for the jobless youth in South Africa
      Amina Ebrahim, Jukka Pirttilä - Journal of Development Economics , 2025 - Amsterdam
      This paper uses survey and tax administrative data to analyse the effects of a sizeable employer-borne payroll tax credit for young, low-wage workers in South Africa. We find fairly limited impacts of the wage subsidy on the employment of young, low-wage workers relative to two comparison groups...
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      CoP on Gender & Tax Explores Gendered fiscal incidence analysis and tax-benefit microsimulation models
      Daisy Attu, Edoardo Magalini, Laura Abramovsky, Pia Rattenhuber -
      At the last meeting of the Community of Practice on Gender and Tax (CoPGT), held on 10th September 2024, the conversation focused on microsimulation models and their role in helping us understand the gendered effects of tax policies in the context of the wider fiscal system. As a community, we’re...
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      Bridging the gap: unveiling the potential of Tanzania’s SMEs through VAT insights
      Amina Ebrahim, Sebastián Castillo, Vincent Leyaro, Ezekiel Swema, Oswald Haule - CESifo Economic Studies , 2024
      The collection of value added tax (VAT) is essential for achieving domestic revenue objectives, yet VAT gap estimation is rarely performed in developing countries. This study utilizes innovative tax declaration and audit data to estimate VAT misreporting in Tanzania, applying a machine learning...
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      A decade of growing inequality in Mozambique
      UNU-WIDER - UNU-WIDER , 2024 - Helsinki, Finland
      Inequality in Mozambique increased substantially between 1996 and 2023, with a large and rapid increase between 2010–2020 of nearly 10 points on the Gini Index. A change of even 2 or 3 Gini points often represents major distributional changes in outcomes across the ranked groups of a population. A...
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      2025 – No time to waste on debt and development
      Kevin P. Gallagher - UNU-WIDER , 2024 - Helsinki, Finland
      An increasing number of Global South countries are now diverting growth and development spending to pay off insurmountable levels of external debts that ballooned as a result of a ‘polycrisis’ of external shocks from COVID-19, climate change, wars, and interest rate hikes. Upwards of USD 3 trillion...
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      Values, knowledge, and interests
      Tony Addison, Alan R. Roe - Oxford University Press , 2024 - Oxford
      From the book: Resources Matter
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      Transforming companies
      Tony Addison - Oxford University Press , 2024 - Oxford
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      Transforming states: economic management
      Tony Addison - Oxford University Press , 2024 - Oxford
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      Transforming states: transparency and corruption
      Tony Addison - Oxford University Press , 2024 - Oxford
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