More than Revenue: Taxation as a Development Tool (Development in the Americas (Paperback))

Inter-American Development Bank Inter-American Development Bank, A. Corbacho, V. Cibils, E. Lora

ISBN 10: 1137294841 / ISBN 13: 9781137294845

Published by Palgrave Macmillan 2013-04-22, 2013

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: More than Revenue: Taxation as a Development Tool (Development in the Americas (Paperback))
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan 2013-04-22
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1137294841
• ISBN 13: 9781137294845
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This exciting new volume provides an up-to-date overview of the current state of taxation in the Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) region, its main reform needs, and possible reform strategies that take into account the likely economic, institutional, and political constraints on the reform process.

About the Author

Ana Corbacho is the Sector Economic Advisor for the Institutions in Development Sector at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Prior to joining the IDB in 2010, she was at the International Monetary Fund where she began as a desk economist for Bulgaria and a fiscal economist for Honduras. She quickly rose through the Fiscal Affairs Department and was eventually named Deputy Division Chief of the Western Hemisphere Department. Her areas of expertise include macroeconomic and fiscal policy analysis, fiscal institutions and public infrastructure financing, and household survey analysis, poverty and income distribution. Ms. Corbacho, an Argentine native, holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University, a master of philosophy in Economics from Columbia and a licentiate in Economics (summa cum laude) from the Universidad de San Andres in Argentina. She has received numerous honors and fellowships including merit scholarships as the Columbia University President’s Fellow, Public P