Public finance and economic development : an annotated bibliography

The bibliography is organized into four sections. The first section covers seminal works dating from 1951 to 1977; the other three present works dating from 1978 to 1985 in the respective areas of fiscal policy and economic development, taxation of the external sector (exports and imports), and taxation of income, wealth, and consumption. Each section contains a discussion and synthesis of the broad trends and developments in the literature over the period and a bibliographic listing in which each entry is accompanied by a summary description of the work and, where appropriate, a judgment of its contribution. The works were selected for inclusion in the bibliography on the basis of three criteria - public finance and developing country foci and scholarly substance.