In a paper published last week, five economists from the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, working with Christopher Heady from the University of Kent in the U.K., examined the impact of tax changes in 21 developed economies over the past 34 years.

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Even the new U.S. ambassador, Kent Wiedemann, was robbed at gunpoint of his mobile telephone during an evening stroll with his wife.

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But Councillor Tim Kent, the Liberal Democrat group leader, said u-turns over some of the proposed cuts show Mayor Ferguson is able to compromise.

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