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More than Revenue: Taxation as a Development Tool

The Wilson Center and the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) are pleased to present the 2013 edition of the IDB’s flagship series, Development in the Americas (DIA). Entitled More than Image removed.Revenue, this year’s DIA describes taxation in Latin America and the Caribbean as a missed opportunity. It advocates converting distortionary, inadequate and regressive tax systems into allies of economic growth, mobility and social equality.

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Latin America Program

The Wilson Center’s prestigious Latin America Program provides non-partisan expertise to a broad community of decision makers in the United States and Latin America on critical policy issues facing the Hemisphere. The Program provides insightful and actionable research for policymakers, private sector leaders, journalists, and public intellectuals in the United States and Latin America. To bridge the gap between scholarship and policy action, it fosters new inquiry, sponsors high-level public and private meetings among multiple stakeholders, and explores policy options to improve outcomes for citizens throughout the Americas. Drawing on the Wilson Center’s strength as the nation’s key non-partisan policy forum, the Program serves as a trusted source of analysis and a vital point of contact between the worlds of scholarship and action.   Read more

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