@article{Kowalski:331362, recid = {331362}, author = {Kowalski, Przemyslaw}, title = {Impact of Changes in Tariffs on Developing Countries' Government Revenue}, address = {2005}, pages = {95}, year = {2005}, note = {Presented at the 8th Annual Conference on Global Economic Analysis, Lübeck, Germany}, abstract = {This paper addresses tariff revenue concerns that some countries have been expressing in the context of the current multilateral trade negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda. This paper: discusses methodological issues associated with estimating revenue impacts; provides impact estimates for a sample of developing countries; links the differences in impacts to cross-country differences in existing tariff regimes as well as properties of formulas for tariff cuts; and, discusses efficient tax replacement policies and past experiences. Additionally, the paper presents results of a simulation of the welfare effects of reducing tariffs and simultaneously replacing lost tariff revenues with revenues from consumption tax. It concludes with some policy implications.}, url = {http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/record/331362}, }