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Medium Term Expenditure Framework => The Revenue Framework => Topic started by: John Short on April 18, 2017, 08:14:54 GMT

Title: IMF Fiscal Monitor Upgrading the Tax System to Boost Productivity
Post by: John Short on April 18, 2017, 08:14:54 GMT

A top challenge facing policymakers today is how to raise total factor productivity, the key driver of living standards over the long term. Chapter 2: Upgrading the Tax System to Boost Productivity of the Fiscal Monitor titled "Achieving More with Less" makes the case that upgrading a country's tax system is important to boosting productivity because it can reduce distortions that prevent resources from going to where they are most productive.


http://www.imf.org/en/Publications/FM/Issues/2017/04/06/fiscal-monitor-april-2017