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  "title": "Methodology and Overview of the IMF’s World Revenue Longitudinal Database",
  "publication": "Technical Notes and Manuals, March 6, 2025",
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  "summary": "This note presents the methodology behind the IMF’s World Revenue Longitudinal Database, a comprehensive data set that tracks government revenue trends since the early 1990s.",
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      "heading": "Overview",
      "content": "- Presents the methodology behind the IMF’s World Revenue Longitudinal Database, a comprehensive data set that tracks government revenue trends since the early 1990s.\n- Provides policymakers, researchers, and the public with insights into the evolution of the level and composition of revenues and tax revenues.\n- Emphasizes the database as a unique, consistent, and reliable source for cross-country comparison and policy analysis.\n- Updated annually with an accompanying technical note that summarizes recent revenue developments, data revisions, and methodological improvements."
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      "heading": "Data coverage and scope",
      "content": "- Country coverage: data for 193 countries, including 190 IMF member countries.\n- Temporal coverage: trends tracked since the early 1990s.\n- The database focuses on both the level and composition of revenues and tax revenues.\n- Subject areas listed: Economic and financial statistics; Environment; Government finance statistics; Income and capital gains taxes; Income tax systems; Natural resources; Revenue administration; Taxes.\n- Keywords and regional focus include: Asia and Pacific; Caribbean; Global; Middle East and Central Asia; Western Hemisphere; World Revenue Longitudinal Database; IMF's World revenue; revenue development; tax potential; tax revenues; nontax revenues; Government finance statistics; IMF region; data IMF Library."
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      "heading": "Methodology features (as described)",
      "content": "- Methodological objective: to provide a consistent longitudinal framework for revenue and tax revenue comparison across countries.\n- Emphasis on methodological transparency via a technical guidance note accompanying the database.\n- Annual updates that incorporate data revisions and methodological improvements to maintain comparability and reliability.\n- Designed to inform policy choices that support the Sustainable Development Goals, climate action, and economic equity."
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      "heading": "Uses, findings, and policy relevance",
      "content": "- Primary users: policymakers, researchers, and the public.\n- Key analytical uses:\n  - Comparing revenue levels and compositions across countries and over time.\n  - Shaping policies related to revenue mobilization and tax policy.\n  - Informing strategies to support the Sustainable Development Goals, climate action, and economic equity.\n- The database and technical note serve as an essential resource for understanding global revenue mobilization developments.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Methodology and Overview of the IMF's World Database; February 2025; TNM 2025/04\n  - Methodology and Overview of the IMF's World Database; February 2025; TNM 2025/04 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Methodology and Overview of the IMF's World Database; February 2025; TNM 2025/04 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/tnm/issues/2025/03/06/methodology-and-overview-of-the-imfs-world-revenue-longitudinal-database-557352"
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    "Authors: Mario Mansour, Marijn Verhoeven, Fayçal Sawadogo, Benedict Chu Sheen Tan",
    "Published: March 6, 2025",
    "Series: Technical Notes and Manuals",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9798400291982.005",
    "Presents the methodology behind the IMF’s World Revenue Longitudinal Database, a comprehensive data set that tracks government revenue trends since the early 1990s.",
    "Provides policymakers, researchers, and the public with insights into the evolution of the level and composition of revenues and tax revenues.",
    "Emphasizes the database as a unique, consistent, and reliable source for cross-country comparison and policy analysis.",
    "Updated annually with an accompanying technical note that summarizes recent revenue developments, data revisions, and methodological improvements.",
    "Country coverage: data for 193 countries, including 190 IMF member countries.",
    "Temporal coverage: trends tracked since the early 1990s.",
    "The database focuses on both the level and composition of revenues and tax revenues.",
    "Subject areas listed: Economic and financial statistics; Environment; Government finance statistics; Income and capital gains taxes; Income tax systems; Natural resources; Revenue administration; Taxes.",
    "Keywords and regional focus include: Asia and Pacific; Caribbean; Global; Middle East and Central Asia; Western Hemisphere; World Revenue Longitudinal Database; IMF's World revenue; revenue development; tax potential; tax revenues; nontax revenues; Government finance statistics; IMF region; data IMF Library.",
    "Methodological objective: to provide a consistent longitudinal framework for revenue and tax revenue comparison across countries.",
    "Emphasis on methodological transparency via a technical guidance note accompanying the database.",
    "Annual updates that incorporate data revisions and methodological improvements to maintain comparability and reliability.",
    "Designed to inform policy choices that support the Sustainable Development Goals, climate action, and economic equity.",
    "Primary users: policymakers, researchers, and the public.",
    "Key analytical uses:",
    "The database and technical note serve as an essential resource for understanding global revenue mobilization developments.",
    "**Methodology and Overview of the IMF's World Database; February 2025; TNM 2025/04**"
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