Various organizations discourage younger staff members to speak up. An inability to challenge each other's views in a work setting is bad for performance. This is exactly why promoting "productive conflict" is crucial to improving productivity. dawn.com/news/1724222

My blog takes a close look at ways to close the tax gap in Indonesia. The challenges related to use of third-party data in tax compliance are of broad relevance, including Pakistan.

Op-Ed: "The annual Aurat March always draws strong, polarising reactions from citizens across Pakistan. The most bizarre reaction (and unfortunately a common one) is to deny that gender inequality is, in fact, a problem in the country." dawn.com/news/1741204

Have you come across people who outright deny that gender disparities exist in Pakistan? This article is for them because it shows that the Gender Imbalance in Pakistan is (i) absolutely undeniable; and (ii) pervasive. Includes eye-opening stats on gender dawn.com/news/1741204

Our blog summarizes our report on Personal Income Tax (PIT) Piggybacking in Indonesia. It explains the tool in simple terms and shows that it can be an important lever to improve local government revenues. Important lessons for other countries as well.

Local government revenue mobilization is crucial for the success of fiscal decentralization. Our blog summarizes the reasons for its importance in the Indonesian context. Link in the tweet below.

❗New Publication Alert❗ How can technology be used to improve tax compliance? We find that Point of Sale (PoS) machines cause substantial increases in compliance for sales-based taxes within local governments in Indonesia. Further details in link 👇: documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099…

❗New Publication Alert❗ How can central government fiscal transfers incentivize local tax effort? Our paper provides a theoretically and empirically grounded way to do so in Indonesia. Further details below 👇 (link opens better on laptops) documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099… Assyifa Szami Ilman

Our blog summarizes our main findings related to Indonesia's intergovernmental transfers reform. It shows a viable way to estimate fiscal capacity, crucial to incentive revenue mobilization of local governments.👇 blogs.worldbank.org/governance/ref…

❗New Publication Alert❗ Our paper provides a detailed macro-fiscal analysis of Green Growth in Indonesia. For further details, please check out the link below. 👇 documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099… Dira

Check out our latest blog on how local governments in Indonesia have effectively used technology to improve tax compliance. 👇 blogs.worldbank.org/en/development…

You may have heard casual attitudes towards abusive methods to discipline kids. "We turned out just fine" is the usual response to critique. My article discusses the long-term mental health effects of such abuse - something not to be taken lightly. dawn.com/news/1831137

❗New Publication Alert❗ We use Machine Learning techniques to estimate the impact of a door-to-door tax enforcement drive in Indonesia. We find that this intervention significantly improved tax compliance with effects that persist over time. Link here: documents1.worldbank.org/curated/en/099…

Interested in working for the World Bank? Join the live session tomorrow (Thursday, December 5 2024) where I will be speaking about careers at the World Bank along with our HR team. Link for the session below: careerfairy.io/next-livestrea…

❗New Publication Alert❗ Our paper just got published in the Journal of Politics. We provide one of the first ever empirical estimates of the impact of gender segregated polling facilities on voter turnout. journals.uchicago.edu/doi/10.1086/73…

SRMG Think and the World Bank recently co-hosted an event marking the launch of the latest Gulf Economic Update Report. The session featured a timely exchange of perspectives, with thoughtful contributions from speakers and participants. We look forward to future high-impact