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Ana Corbacho is the Sector Economic Advisor for the Institutions in Development Sector at the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB). Prior to joining the IDB in 2010, she was at the International Monetary Fund where she began as a desk economist for Bulgaria and a fiscal economist for Honduras. She quickly rose through the Fiscal Affairs Department and was eventually named Deputy Division Chief of the Western Hemisphere Department. Her areas of expertise include macroeconomic and fiscal policy analysis, fiscal institutions and public infrastructure financing, and household survey analysis, poverty and income distribution. Ms. Corbacho, an Argentine native, holds a Ph.D. in Economics from Columbia University, a master of philosophy in Economics from Columbia and a licentiate in Economics (summa cum laude) from the Universidad de San Andres in Argentina. She has received numerous honors and fellowships including merit scholarships as the Columbia University President’s Fellow, Public P

PART I: OVERVIEW PART II: GENERAL TOPICS Where We Are and How We Got Here: Stylized Facts of Taxation in LAC The Political Economy of Taxation and Tax Reforms Taxation and Stabilization Labor Effects of Taxation Sub-National Taxation Tax and Customs Administration: Progress to Date and Challenges Ahead PART III: SPECIFIC TAXES: CHALLENGES AND POLICY OPTIONS Personal Income Taxes Corporate Income Taxes Value-Added Taxes Non-Renewable Resource Revenues Environmental Taxes The Perils of Expediency