tailieunhanh - Peasants Versus City-Dwellers: Taxation and the Burden of Economic Development

From the historical perspective, the two central problems facing most of the developing countries are: Who should bear the burden of the costs of development? and How should these costs be shared between those in the urban and rural sectors? The inevitable conflicts between the two have, in fact, been a long standing theme, reflected in the debates, in Britain over the Corn Laws, in the United States over industrial tariffs, and in Russia over the size of the "scissors." The book provides for the first time a unifying framework within which these questions can be systematically approached. From the perspective. | OXFORD I PEASANTS VERSUS CITY-DWELLERS s TAXATION AND THE BURDEN OF ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT Raaj K. Sah and Joseph E. Stiglitz PEASANTS VERSUS CITY-DWELLERS Taxation and the Burden of Economic Development RAAJ K. SAH JOSEPH E. STIGLITZ CLARENDON PRESS OXFORD 1992 25 0 Oxford University Press Walton Street. Oxford otí 61 Oxford New York Toronto Delhi Bombay Calcutta Madras Karachi Petaling Jaya Singapore Hong Kong Tokyo Nairobi Dar es Salaam Cape Town Melbourne Auckland and associated companies in Berlin Ibadan Oxford is a trade mark of Oxford University Press Published in the United States by Oxford University Press New York R. K. Sah and J. E. Stiglitz 1992 All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic mechanical photocopying recording or otherwise without the prior permission of Oxford University Press British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data Data available Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Sah Raaj Kumar. Peasants versus city-dwellers taxation and the burden of economic development Raaj K. Sah Joseph E. Stiglitz. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. I. Developing countries Economic policy. 2. Developing countries Economic conditions. J. Rural development Developing countries. 4. Rural poor Taxation Developing countries. 5. Income distribution Developing countries. 6 Taxation Developing countries. I. Stiglitz Joseph E. II. Title. 338. 9W9l72 4 dc20 1992 91-33923 ISBN0-19-828581-7 Typeset by Alliance Phototypesetters Printed and bound in Great Britain by Biddles Ltd. Guildford and King s Lynn PREFACE This book is written with three audiences in mind development economists public finance economists and economic historians. One objective of this book is to address certain central questions facing today s LDCs less developed countries such as Who should bear the costs of development How should the investment funds .