Risk Management for Targeting Customs Controls in Developing Countries: A Risky Venture for Revenue Performance?

Anne-Marie Geourjon () and Bertrand Laporte
Additional contact information
Anne-Marie Geourjon: Centre d'Etudes et de Recherches sur le Développement International(CERDI)

No 200416, Working Papers from CERDI

Abstract: Customs authorities in developing countries are often reluctant to forgo systematic inspections for fear of risking revenue loss. Such physical inspections, however, impede rather than facilitate trade. Control selectivity is therefore a key issue in customs administration reform. This paper shows how a sophisticated risk management method can facilitate trade by automatically and rationally selecting transactions, with the end result of actually enhancing revenue performance.

Keywords: Customs controls; Moral hazard; Risk management; Fiscal revenues; Trade facilitation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 16
Date: 2004
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations: View citations in EconPapers (14)

Published in Public Administration and Development, 2005, pages 105-113
Published in Public Administration and Development

Downloads: (external link)
http://publi.cerdi.org/ed/2004/2004.16.pdf (application/pdf)
Our link check indicates that this URL is bad, the error code is: 404 Not Found (http://publi.cerdi.org/ed/2004/2004.16.pdf [301 Moved Permanently]--> https://publi.cerdi.org/ed/2004/2004.16.pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:cdi:wpaper:622

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in Working Papers from CERDI Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Vincent Mazenod ().