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Care Foundation: Changing Lives through Education

12 December 2017
Pakistan has the second largest population of out-of-school children in the world. As a pioneer of public and private school partnerships, CARE Foundation contributes to resolving Pakistan’s education crisis by endeavoring to provide quality marketable education to all through its Government School…

Synergy of Poverty Reduction and Environmental Protection: UN Case Studies and Lessons Learned

9 December 2017
What key lessons can the UN offer to solve the poverty-environment issues of the People’s Republic of China? Green development and poverty reduction—these are important itineraries common in both the UN’s 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the People’s Republic of China’s national…

Conditional Transfers, Ecosystem Services, and Poverty Alleviation

9 December 2017
In the poverty agenda of developing countries, the literature warns of the problem of “payments for ecosystem services" overloading. By trying to both protect environmental services and reduce poverty, payments for ecosystem services (PES) programs face expensive trade-offs, inefficiencies, and the…

Opportunities and Challenges of Eco-compensation in the People’s Republic of China

8 December 2017
Eco-compensation has developed rapidly in the People’s Republic of China, with eco-compensation mechanisms being integrated into ecological civilization reforms and poverty reduction programs. At least 20 provinces have already issued their respective provincial policy paper on the implementation…

Opportunities and Challenges with Payments for Ecosystems in Brazil

8 December 2017
What can be learned from Brazil’s experiences in payments for ecosystem services? Participatory planning, empowerment, transparency, and education for sustainable development—these are some of Brazil’s strategies for success.

The Tax Administration Diagnostic Assessment Tool Framework: An Overview

2 December 2017
Learn about the Tax Administration Diagnostic Assessment Tool (TADAT) framework. TADAT provides an objective and standardized performance assessment of a country’s tax administration system. This presentation provides an update on TADAT assessments being done around the world and highlights some of…

Tax Policy Assessment Framework

2 December 2017
Designed for wide public consumption, the Tax Policy Assessment Framework (TPAF) developed by the International Monetary Fund and World Bank is a framework for systematic and consistent assessments of all major tax sources. The goal is to provide solid analytical basis for design of policy options…

Revenue Administration: GAP Analysis Program

2 December 2017
The International Monetary Fund’s Revenue Administration Gap Analysis Program (RA-GAP) is a systematic evaluation of a revenue administration’s operations designed to assess their effectiveness in collecting taxes, with a focus on value-added tax. The ultimate goal of the assessment is to be able…

International Survey on Revenue Administration

2 December 2017
The International Survey on Revenue Administration (ISORA) is a survey of revenue administration performance-related data conducted by the IMF in collaboration with the Inter-American Center of Tax Administrations, the Intra-European Organisation of Tax Administration, and the Organisation for…

Recent Fiscal Developments and Revenue Trends in Asia and Oceania

1 December 2017
Learn about recent fiscal developments and revenue trends in the world particularly in Asia. This presentation provides a snapshot of the latest fiscal developments in the world and shares revenue trends in Asian countries. It also includes cross-country and chronicle data on tax-to-gross domestic…