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At this point, government revenues fall, the benefits from high inflation vanish, and political support for stabilization consolidates.
Brazil has been more successful than Argentina in raising tax revenues.
The problem of Latin America lies in its high level of government spending, the lack of a solid upper and middle class ready to pay taxes to support it, and the inability to produce politicians able to use tax revenues prudently and so break the cycle of populist demagoguery.
While tax revenues increased by €32 billion ($44 billion) last year, the government deficit fell by a mere €8 billion and public debt increased from 89% of GDP to more than 93%.
Both countries’ current-account deficits have widened as a result of falling tourism revenues and disrupted export activities, and neither country has taken measures to improve private-sector competitiveness.
When private incomes fall, so do public revenues.
Since then revenues have doubled, the economy is growing by 8% per year, school enrollment is up 50%, and electricity and water have been restored to parts of Monrovia for the first time in 15 years.
While fiscal revenues are on the rise, they account for only about 6% of China’s total assets – and their growth rate is slowing.
For governments, contracts are more likely to be durable if they are negotiated in a way that enables countries to receive fair and predictable long-term revenues.
Thanks to the economic growth that resulted from the reforms that he denounced, countries like India and Brazil now have higher revenues to spend on health care for the poor, among other public goods.
Governments lack both the means and motivation, owing to their inability to recoup costs from poor villagers, often because subsidized electricity prices depress revenues.
Development of unconventional oil and gas supported 2.1 million jobs and contributed $74 billion in tax revenues and royalty payments to government coffers in 2012.
Indeed, given that oil and gas revenues account for half of Russia’s federal budget, adapting to new realities is virtually an existential imperative for the Russian state.
Financial services may account for only 3% of employment, but they generate 11% of tax revenues.
Killing the goose that lays the golden tax egg would be foolhardy: if the economy slows, which seems the best we can expect, those revenues will be sorely needed.
Its leaders should focus on one key issue: managing Nigeria's oil revenues.
Paradoxically, the boldest course would be for the government to stop managing these revenues and turn over a large fraction of these funds directly to the people, as is done in the US state of Alaska and the Canadian province of Alberta.
At the earliest opportunity, Nigeria's government should convene a conference of all national and regional leaders and secure agreement on a constitutional provision whereby each household would be guaranteed a share of oil revenues, with the amount determined by prevailing prices and quotas.
Recent research I conducted with the IMF's Arvind Subramanian demonstrates that Nigeria's poor economic performance is primarily a story of the mismanagement of oil revenues.
Oil revenues should be taken out of public hands to the greatest degree possible and handed over to the private sector.
Currently, oil accounts for a substantial share of Nigeria's total government revenues.
With no need to tax the public, Nigeria's government has little incentive to provide services efficiently: oil revenues are manna from heaven and keep flowing regardless of what the public sector delivers.
Moreover, while Nigeria is formally a democracy, the balance of power between citizens and public officials, including those at state and local government levels, is skewed in favor of the latter by virtue of their easy access to oil revenues.
Another question is how much of the revenues should be transferred, and how transfers can be effected in a country as large, complex, and financially backward as Nigeria.
First, today’s trade rules and international development-finance institutions must stop blocking potential industrial and economic gains from green investment supported by tax revenues.
Markets are generally efficient if companies’ revenues correctly reflect all the benefits that their output bestows on third parties, while their costs reflect all the harms.
Even as tech revenues soar on the continent, almost no tech jobs are being created for Africans.
Oil and gas prices were sky high, with export revenues flooding the Kremlin’s coffers.
Yet beneath Iraq’s chaos and the rubble, a rough and tumble private sector has been expanding since the US invasion, benefiting from higher oil revenues and more liberal economic policies.
Revenues and earnings have increased, and net sales have grown threefold.
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