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Modern customs administrations aim to both facilitate legal trade and combat fraud. To meet this dual objective, many customs administrations in developing countries must give risk management a highly prominent role. In this context of modernisation, this paper first provides stylised facts on the performance of the customs controls carried out at the Gabon border. […]

This paper analyzes the impact of citizenship laws on economic development. We first document the evolution of citizenship laws around the world, highlighting the main features of jus soli, jus sanguinis as well as mixed regimes, and shedding light on the channels through which they could have differentiated impact on economic development. We then compile […]

The debate on the sharing of mineral resource rent between governments and investors is recurrent. It resurfaces especially when the prices of minerals increase. The question is an important one for African countries, more than half of which produce mineral resources. However, there are no public databases to analyse and compare the fiscal and parafiscal […]

The legal database lists the laws and regulations that govern the taxation and mining activity of each country. Taxation in force during a year is based on a multitude of legal texts. Filters allow you to select only those that are in force during the selected year(s). Legal texts are classified by theme to facilitate […]

Ce guide a été réalisé par la Fondation pour les Etudes et Recherches sur le Développement International (Ferdi), par une équipe coordonnée par Anne- Marie Geourjon et composée de Bertrand Laporte, Emilie Caldeira, Céline de Quatrebarbes et Yannick Bouterige. Il s’appuie sur les expériences d’évaluation des dépenses fiscales de la Ferdi dans plusieurs pays en […]

This paper examines the accuracy of estimates of corruption reported in business surveys by comparing reported experience of corruption in public procurement from Malagasy firms having won public contracts with a more objective measure of corruption in the sector using a red flag indicator of corruption risk. This red flag indicator of corruption identifies contracts […]