Teaching Taxation in Developing Countries

What are good books for teaching taxation in developing countries?

The Theory and Practice of Tax Reform in Developing Countries
Etisham Ahmad, Nicholas Stern
Tax Policy Handbook
Economics of Taxation (syllabus)

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Is Gruber's book the best introductory textbook

Public Finance and Public Policy, the new textbook by Jonathan Gruber, is not only the best public finance textbooks I've ever read it is one of the best textbooks I've read in any field...

Gruber covers all the major programs - education, social security, unemployment insurance, Medicaid and Medicare, the tax system etc. - and in each case he carefully explains the institutional details and then he evaulates the empirical evidence focusing on the most telling pieces of evidence (rather than trying to cover everything that has ever been written as in a review paper).

Gruber is so good on the empirical research that this book would be a useful supplement to an applied econometrics class. Just flipping through it and reading the boxed Empirical Evidence sections gives a good feel for what the cutting edge questions and techniques are in empirical research.

-Alex Tabarrok