Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/128531 
Year of Publication: 
2014
Series/Report no.: 
ADB Economics Working Paper Series No. 416
Publisher: 
Asian Development Bank (ADB), Manila
Abstract: 
This paper develops a framework to assess the growth and distribution effects of fiscal resources. Resources are classified as debt, other capital receipts, foreign aid and other unilateral grants, non-tax revenue, including resource rents, seigniorage, and taxes. The framework is used to assess the fiscal resource bases of economies in developing Asia to the extent permitted by available data. Although there is great diversity in the amount of resources raised in terms of the importance of different revenue sources and in the sophistication of revenue administrations, the analysis suggests that in order to expand their relatively low fiscal resource bases, developing Asian economies need to pay greater attention to non-tax revenue and to taxes other than broad-based taxes on income and consumption, such as property taxes and corrective taxes.
Subjects: 
fiscal policy
fiscal resources
taxes
non-tax revenue
growth effects
distribution effects
developing Asia
JEL: 
H20
O40
O53
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Creative Commons License: 
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Document Type: 
Working Paper

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