A Guide on Estimating the Revenue Losses from Various Tax Concessions Tax expenditure estimation is an important analytical tool in supporting tax policy formulation.
Revamping Tobacco Taxation Strategies for High-Burden Asian Countries Tax reforms aimed at a 10% reduction in smoking prevalence could reduce the population of smokers by 38.7 million and prevent 11.6 million premature deaths.
A Tool for Assessing the Distributional Impact of VAT Tax Expenditures This tool enables policy makers to make more informed decisions about VAT exemptions and zero-ratings.
How to Improve Sustainable Regional Integration in CAREC Economies Developing efficient institutions and technical capacity building can strengthen regional cooperation and integration in Central Asia.
Strategizing Economic Recovery Using a New Computable General Equilibrium Model for Bhutan As the country reopens, a newly developed macroeconomic model suggests paths forward from the past 3 years of economic disruption.
Maximizing the Potential of Central Asia’s Horticulture Exports to the PRC This study suggests policy actions for the Kyrgyz Republic, Pakistan, Tajikistan, and Uzbekistan based on the export potential of selected fruits and nuts.
Promoting Access to Decent Work in Sri Lanka Invest in economic sectors that are more likely to generate more productive jobs.
The Importance of Estimating Kazakhstan’s E-commerce Volume and Patterns The reliability of statistics is critical for decision makers, researchers and media to understand domestic e-commerce.
Analyzing Technology and Productivity Spillovers from Chinese FDIs to CAREC Countries FDI-recipient countries show positive growth in productivity but their technology gains depend on absorption capacity.
Measuring Social Mobility in Longitudinal Data-Scarce Settings Pseudo-panel methods using repeated cross-sectional surveys, which are less costly and easier to do, may offer a solution to this problem.