Is Aid Unfriendly to Tax? African Evidence of Heterogeneous Direct and Indirect Effects

Hermann Yohou (), Michael Goujon, Bertrand Laporte and Samuel Guerineau ()
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Samuel Guerineau: Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International(CERDI)

No 201608, Working Papers from CERDI

Abstract: We explore the heterogeneous effects together with the transmission channels of aid on tax revenues in 47 African countries over 1990-2011 using a panel smooth threshold regression model and two alternative tax datasets from IMF and ICTD. We find that aid enhances tax revenues with decreasing returns for a threshold of 6.3% and 23% of GNI for total taxes and non-resource taxes respectively. Aid effect varies across countries and over time, but, on average, is positive. Moreover, we evidence that aid conditions the impact of the level of development, trade, institutions and resource wealth on tax.

Keywords: Revenues; Tax data; Africa (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C23 F35 H20 O55 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 34
Date: 2016-05
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