Revenue and the Fiscal Impact of Liberalization : The Case of Niger

Using data collected during several missions, the author finds that the principal reasons for low revenue mobilization are (1) the adverse fiscal impact of trade liberalization, (2) the defiscalization of agriculture in the 1970s, (3) the collapse of the uranium boom in the 1980s, and (4) the poor r...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Zafar, Ali
Format: Policy Research Working Paper
Language:English
Published: World Bank, Washington, DC 2012
Subjects:
GDP
GNP
OIL
TAX
WTO
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/10986/8889