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Record Nr.

UNINA9910807485703321

Autore

Thornton John

Titolo

Natural Resource Endowments, Governance, and the Domestic Revenue Effort : : Evidence from a Panel of Countries / / John Thornton, Fabian Bornhorst, Sanjeev Gupta

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Washington, D.C. : , : International Monetary Fund, , 2008

ISBN

1-4623-1745-6

1-4527-2890-9

1-282-84121-1

9786612841217

1-4518-7028-0

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (12 p.)

Collana

IMF Working Papers

IMF working paper ; ; WP/08/170

Altri autori (Persone)

BornhorstFabian

GuptaSanjeev

Disciplina

547.01

Soggetti

Hydrocarbons - Economic aspects - Econometric models

Taxation - Econometric models

Agribusiness

Natural Resources

Criminology

Bureaucracy

Administrative Processes in Public Organizations

Corruption

Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics

Environmental and Ecological Economics: General

Agriculture: General

Corporate crime

white-collar crime

Environmental management

Agricultural economics

Natural resources

Agricultural sector

Agricultural industries

Kuwait

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese



Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; I. Introduction; II. Data and Methodology; Tables; 1. Government Revenue from Hydrocarbons, 1992-2005; Figure 1. Government Revenue from Hydrocarbons and Domestic Taxes; III. Empirical Results; 2. Summary Statistics for Selected Variables; 3. Panel OLS Results with Fixed Effects; IV. Conclusions; References

Sommario/riassunto

The recent development literature stresses that countries that receive large revenues from natural resource endowments typically raise less revenue from domestic taxation, and that this creates governance problems because the lower domestic tax effort reduces the incentive for the public scrutiny of government. Our results from a panel of 30 hydrocarbon producing countries indicate that the offset between hydrocarbon revenues and revenues from other domestic sources is about 20 percent but that it is invariant to governance indicators.