Empirics of crosscountry tax revenue comparisons

World Development

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 1659-1671

  Zee, Howell H ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL MONETARY FUND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FISCAL POLICY; GDP RATIO; INTERNATIONAL COMPARISON; REVENUE DATA; REVENUE DIVERGENCE; TAX REVENUE;

EID: 0030440548     PISSN: 0305750X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0305-750X(96)00060-5     Document Type: Article

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