Taxation and Development highlights the importance of better understanding the ways in which taxes and expenditure are linked. Focusing on developing countries, the book argues for a broader approach to the topic, with a secondary focus on developing and applying new modeling techniques to country-specific data.

Contents: 1. Sustainable Development Requires a Good Tax System Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Richard M. Bird PART I: TAXATION AND DEVELOPMENT: SURVEYING THE TERRAIN 2. New Approaches to Measuring Tax Effort Musharraf Rasool Cyan, Jorge Martinez-Vazquez and Violeta Vulovic 3. Modeling Tax Reform in Developing Countries Andrew Feltenstein, Luciana Lopes, Janet Porras-Mendoza, and Sally Wallace 4. Foreign Advice and Tax Policy in Developing Countries Richard M. Bird PART II: KEY ISSUES IN TAX POLICY 5. Territorial vs. Worldwide Corporate Taxation: Implications for Developing Countries Thornton Matheson, Victoria Perry, and Chandara Veung 6. Taxing the Small: Fostering Tax Compliance among Small Enterprises in Developing Countries William F. Fox and Matthew N. Murray 7. Taxation and Inequality in the Americas: Changing the Fiscal Contract? Richard M. Bird and Eric M. Zolt 8. Reforming Subsidies for Fossil Fuel Consumption: Killing Several Birds with One Stone Charles E. McLure, Jr. PART III: BELOW THE CENTER: SUBNATIONAL TAXATION 9. Why Theory and Practice are Different: The Gap between Principles and Reality in Subnational Revenue Systems Paul Smoke 10. Implementing Sustainable Property Tax Reform in Developing Countries Roy Kelly 11. Beneficiary Charges: The Cinderella of Subnational Finance Yeti Nicha Madhoo and Shyam Nath Part IV: LOOKING FORWARD 12. A Retropective on Taxation in Developing Countries: Will the Weakest Link be strengthened? Roy Bahl Index