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  "title": "Taxation and Development: Again",
  "publication": "IMF Working Papers, September 1, 2012",
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  "summary": "Issues of taxation and development, which have long been a central concern of the IMF, have attracted wider and renewed interest in the last few years.",
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      "content": "- Issues of taxation and development have long been a central concern of the IMF and have attracted wider and renewed interest in recent years.\n- The paper reflects on three broad lessons of experience:\n  - Developing countries differ vastly in tax matters, and in ways that are less than fully understood.\n  - The history of ‘big ideas’ in guiding tax reform for developing countries is decidedly mixed.\n  - The value of the emphasis often placed in this context on ‘informality’ is decidedly limited.\n- The paper also asks whether ideas of ‘state building’ emphasized in some recent literature are likely to lead to practical advice much different from that commonly offered now."
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      "content": "- Heterogeneity:\n  - Developing countries exhibit vast differences in tax matters; these differences are not fully understood.\n- Assessment of reform paradigms:\n  - The record of ‘big ideas’ for tax reform in developing countries is described as decidedly mixed.\n- Role of informality:\n  - Emphasis on ‘informality’ in the taxation and development debate is characterized as decidedly limited in value.\n- State-building literature:\n  - The paper questions whether state-building ideas in recent literature would alter practical tax policy advice compared with current approaches."
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      "content": "- Tailor tax advice and reform strategies to country-specific tax structures and contexts rather than relying solely on broad “big idea” prescriptions.\n- Exercise caution in overemphasizing informality as a central explanation or policy target for tax performance in developing countries.\n- Evaluate whether state-building frameworks produce materially different practical recommendations for tax policy and administration before adopting them as distinct policy guidance.\n\n---\n\n Content in this bundle\n\n- Taxation and Development--Again; by Michael Keen; IMF Working Paper 12/220; September 1, 2012\n  - Taxation and Development--Again; by Michael Keen; IMF Working Paper 12/220; September 1, 2012 (Markdown version){rel=\"alternate\" type=\"text/markdown\"}\n  - Taxation and Development--Again; by Michael Keen; IMF Working Paper 12/220; September 1, 2012 (PDF){rel=\"external\" type=\"application/pdf\"}\n\n---\n\nSource: https://www.imf.org/en/publications/wp/issues/2016/12/31/taxation-and-development-again-26242"
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    "Authors: Michael Keen",
    "Published: September 1, 2012",
    "Series: IMF Working Papers",
    "DOI: https://doi.org/10.5089/9781475510294.001",
    "Issues of taxation and development have long been a central concern of the IMF and have attracted wider and renewed interest in recent years.",
    "The paper reflects on three broad lessons of experience:",
    "The paper also asks whether ideas of ‘state building’ emphasized in some recent literature are likely to lead to practical advice much different from that commonly offered now.",
    "Heterogeneity:",
    "Assessment of reform paradigms:",
    "Role of informality:",
    "State-building literature:",
    "Tailor tax advice and reform strategies to country-specific tax structures and contexts rather than relying solely on broad “big idea” prescriptions.",
    "Exercise caution in overemphasizing informality as a central explanation or policy target for tax performance in developing countries.",
    "Evaluate whether state-building frameworks produce materially different practical recommendations for tax policy and administration before adopting them as distinct policy guidance.",
    "**Taxation and Development--Again; by Michael Keen; IMF Working Paper 12/220; September 1, 2012**"
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