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  • Tables and figures for: Revenue Collection Is Not Enough: Taxes as an Instrument of Development
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    By Department of Research and Chief Economist (VPS/RES/RES)
    This dataset contains tables and figures for the publication "Revenue Collection Is Not Enough: Taxes as an Instrument of Development" (Related publication only available in Spanish). Taxation in Latin America is largely viewed as a means of generating income to keep the government in business. In recent years, progress has been made towards increasing total revenue, but most countries in the region still lag well behind other countries with similar levels of development. More importantly, Latin America policymakers still largely ignore the potential of taxation to contribute to other important development goals. Governments have repeatedly missed the chance to influence consumption and production patterns by using taxes to effect relative price changes. More than Revenue aims to provide an up-to-date overview of the current state of taxation in the Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) region, its main reform needs, and possible reform strategies that take into account the likely...
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    Country Argentina · Bahamas · Barbados ...

    Temporal coverage 1990-2014

    Published date 2015-06-30

  • Primary Balance (Central Government) (current prices, millions of LCU, sum of last 12 months)
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    Primary balance, current prices, in millions of domestic currency, last 12 months. The primary balance is defined as revenues minus primary expenditures. Revenues are defined as revenues, grants and transfers within goverment agencies. Primary expenditures are defined as total expenditures minus interest payments. It refers to the national administration. The fiscal year starts on January 1.
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    Country Argentina · Bahamas · Jamaica ...

    Temporal coverage -

    Published date 2019-03-05

  • Total Fiscal Expenditure (Central Government) (current prices, millions of LCU, sum of last 12 months)
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    Total expenditures, current prices, in millions of domestic currency, last 12 months. It refers to the national administration. The fiscal year starts on January 1.
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    Country Argentina · Bahamas · Jamaica ...

    Temporal coverage -

    Published date 2019-03-05

  • Survey Data associated with: What Public Policies Do Citizens Want to Combat Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean?
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    By Department of Research and Chief Economist (VPS/RES/RES)
    Crime is a major problem in Latin America and the Caribbean. With 9 percent of the world's population, the region accounts for 33 percent of global homicides. This dataset makes extensive new survey data available to help identify what anti-crime policies citizens in the region demand from their governments, as well as who is demanding what and why. This dataset accompanies a recent report on Combating Crime in Latin America and the Caribbean, https://publications.iadb.org/en/combating-crime-latin-america-and-caribbean-what-public-policies-do-citizens-want. Data from Americas Barometer study were collected in 2016–17 and refer to the subsample of 17 countries in Latin America. The IADB–LAPOP–Capital Cities Project includes data collected from 2017, between August and September. A total of 6,040 interviews in seven countries were conducted as part of the project (Chile, Colombia, Honduras, Mexico, Panama, Peru, and Uruguay). Methodology and Code variables definitions are available...
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    Country Chile · Colombia · Honduras ...

    Temporal coverage 2017-2018

    Published date 2021-05-20

  • Regional System of Standardized Indicators in Peaceful Coexistence and Citizen Security: 2008-2013
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    By Innovation in Citizen Services Division (VPS/IFD/ICS)
    The Regional system of standardized Indicators in peaceful coexistence and Citizen Security (RIC) is a project through which 15 countries and two capital cities of Latin America and the Caribbean, have partnered to improve and compare their statistics on crime and violence. This initiative has been promoted and financed by the Inter-American Development Bank - IDB through the Regional Public Goods program under the coordination and execution of CISALVA Institute at the Universidad del Valle in Cali, Colombia. The citizen security indicators were designed, reviewed and approved by the project's partner countries, along with established definitions and methodologies for the standardizing of the collecting, processing and analyzing stages of the information flow in order to support the quality of the data published. These indicators were reviewed in various regional boards, resulting in the improvement of some of them and the selection of additional citizen security indicators. The...
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    Country Belize · Bolivia · Brazil ...

    Temporal coverage 2008-2013

    Published date 2015-07-21