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Public finance

Incentives to become formal

Even if rates are kept low, more formal businesses will mean more tax revenue in Benin

National revenue services

Broaden the base; close loopholes

GIZ adviser warns that tax exemptions often do not lead to the desired results

Industrial policy

Pragmatism instead of ideology

State industrial policy should appropriately govern market processes

Commodities

Missing billions

International oil, gas and mining corporations are cheating developing countries out of tax revenue on an enormous scale

Government campaign

The slandering of a philanthropist

The vilification of George Soros at the hands of the Hungarian government is baffling

Domestic resource mobilisation

Double standards

African countries should raise more tax revenues, but OECD governments are not really helping

Public budgets

Harmful government expenditure

Fossil fuel subsidies are unsustainable in both environmental and budgetary terms

Public finance

High time to get organised

On their own, the rich nations are no longer able to regulate tax issues internationally

Decentralisation

A deadly power struggle

In Mozambique, a bitter fight has been waged for years over the decentralisation of the country and the associated transfer of power to lower levels

Political science

Access denied

Springer Nature’s decision to block access to politically controversial content in China has global ramifications

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