A Fiscal Policy Dashboard for Low-Income Economies

Jean-Luc Schneider
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Jean-Luc Schneider: French Ministry of Economy and Finance

No 186, Policy Papers from Center for Global Development

Abstract: We construct a fiscal policy dashboard to provide a snapshot of the fiscal system of a country, focusing on macro-sustainability, revenue mobilization, spending composition, and redistributive effects. The dashboard is designed to suit low-income economies, taking into account specificities of their fiscal challenges as well as the relative scarcity of data. Benchmarks are constructed to assess the level of a nation’s indicators in relation to those observed in comparable countries. As a tool for analyzing and comparing national tax systems, such a dashboard is especially useful for governments, international organizations, and civil society organizations operating in low-income economies. To illustrate the methodology, we construct the dashboard for three countries—Mozambique, Ethiopia, and Cambodia—and provide examples of how the dashboard could be exploited by different users.

Pages: 50 pages
Date: 2020-10-14
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