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Tax policy and planning in developing countries

Title: Tax policy and planning in developing countries / edited by Amaresh Bagchi, Nicholas Stern.
Publication: Delhi ; New York : Oxford University Press, 1994.

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xi, 480 pages; 23 cm

Summary

In the fifties and sixties many developing countries, in an anxiety to accelerate growth, adopted a strategy of development relying heavily on investment planning, with a lead role for the public sector. The reasons seemed obvious and persuasive then for countries sorely lacking in basic infrastructure. As the decade of the eighties drew to a close it was evident that planning, as it had been practised by many countries in the past, was no longer viable.
While socialist economies sought ways of loosening the grip of the state over economic activities, countries with mixed economies had to contend with chronic imbalances in the government budget, inflation, and severe balance of payments problems.
Against this backdrop of crisis in the public finances of developing countries, this work, based upon the deliberations of the International Seminar on Public Finance and the Planning Process, Delhi 1990, in which a galaxy of distinguished development economists from all over the world participated, takes stock of the experience of countries practising planning in some form so that policies for the future can be developments from the point of view of theory, and to examine how far theory can provide insights into corrective development strategies.

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Contents

Introduction / Amaresh Bagchi and Nicholas Stern -- 1. A Survey of Public Finance and the Planning Process: The Indian Experience / Amaresh Bagchi and Pulin B. Nayak -- 2. Debt, Deficits, and Inflation: An Application to the Public Finances of India / Willem H. Buiter and Urjit R. Patel -- 3. Dynamics of Interaction between Government Deficit and Domestic Debt in India / C. Rangarajan, Anupam Basu and Narendra Jadhav -- 4. Inter-governmental Fiscal Transfers in India: Some Issues of Design and Measurement / M. Govinda Rao and Vandana Agarwal -- 5. A Normative Approach for Resource Transfers in a Federal State / M. N. Murty and Pulin B. Nayak -- 6. China's Fiscal Reform: Centre-Locality Relations / Jinglian Wu -- 7. Commodity Taxation with Administered and Free Market Prices: Theory and an Application to China / Christopher Heady and Pradeep K. Mitra -- 8. Tariff Design and Reform in a Revenue-Constrained Economy: Theory and an Illustration from India / Pradeep K. Mitra.
9. Taxes, Prices, and Planning: The Impact on Innovation in Eastern Europe / Paul G. Hare -- 10. Agricultural Pricing and Public Investment / David Newbery -- 11. From the Static to the Dynamic: Some Problems in the Theory of Taxation / Nicholas Stern -- 12. The IMF and Tax Reform / Vito Tanzi.

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0195629574 :

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93911539

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