Illusory revenues: Import tariffs in resource-rich and aid-rich economies.
Where imports are financed predominantly by rents from resource extraction or aid the revenue generated by tariffs is illusory. Revenue earned by the tariff is offset by a reduction in the real value of aid and resource rents. Revenue is however moved between accounts in the government budget which,...
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Elsevier
2011
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