01760cas a2200229 a 4500 AALejournalIMF021519 230101c9999 xx r poo 0 0eng d 5.00 USD 9781513569468 1018-5941 BD-DhAAL BD-DhAAL A Time to Build : Does TA Matter for Revenue Mobilization?. Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2021. 1 online resource (16 pages) IMF Working Papers <strong>Off-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required <strong>On-Campus Access:</strong> No User ID or Password Required Electronic access restricted to authorized BRAC University faculty, staff and students We use a unique data set for 115 countries, from 2000-18, and 5-year non-overlapping averages to explore the impact of technical assitance on revenue mobilization. To the authors' knowledge this is the first such effort to determine a direct relationship between technical assistance and the improvement in tax revenues. The paper finds that technical assistance significantly and positively increases tax revenues. Both income per capita and openness were found to positively improve the tax ratio in line with findings in the literature. Dynamic estimations also uncovered a long-run relationship among technical assistance, income per capita, openness, and tax revenues. This result further underscores that it takes time to build capacity and institutional resilience. Mode of access: Internet IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2021/035 Full text available on IMF http://elibrary.imf.org/view/journals/001/2021/035/001.2021.issue-035-en.xml IMF e-Library