Does Paying Taxes Improve the Quality of Governance? Cross-Country Evidence

Poverty and Public Policy

Volumn 3, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1-17

  Altunbas, Yener ^a   Thornton, John ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

cross section; development; governance; state capacity; taxation

Indexed keywords

EID: 85044882366     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19442858     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2202/1944-2858.1155     Document Type: Article

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