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    In-kind transfers as insurance

    In-kind transfers as insurance

    Working Paper
    Using calorie shortfalls as a marginal utility proxy, we find that in-kind transfers are preferred for low-income Indian households.

    29 June 2022

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    Taxation and Supplier Networks: Evidence from India

    Working Paper

    Do tax systems distort firm-to-firm trade? Using data from both firms that do and don’t pay VAT in West Bengal in India, this paper shows that they can have significant effects, contributing to highly segmented supply chain networks.

    20 August 2019

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    Can rationing increase welfare? Theory and an application to India's ration shop system

    Working Paper

    Ration shop systems allow households to purchase limited quantities of some commodities at a fi xed subsidized price and are in widespread use throughout the developing world. I construct a model of piece-wise increasing commodity taxation to consider whether the use of ration shops can be rationalized by the characteristics of developing countries: limited government capacity to observe household incomes and high commodity price risk.

    27 September 2018

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    TAXDEV Policy Conference: Analysing Tax Policy in Low and Middle Income Countries (LMICs)

    Conference 23 March 2018 at 09:30 7 Ridgmount Street London WC1E 7AE
    Governments in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) need to raise sufficient tax revenues in order to invest in human and physical capital and expand social protection programmes. Such investments will be vital to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals. But effective tax systems are about more than raising revenue, and understanding the distributional and behavioural impacts of policies is vital if policymakers are to ensure that their tax systems support inclusive growth and avoid potentially damaging economic distortions.