How can lower income countries collect more taxes? That’s a big question on the minds of many government officials and researchers. Gabe Tourek Gabriel Tourek and I offer some answers in our new paper just out in the Journal of Econ Perspectives @aeapubs aeaweb.org/articles?id=10… 1/n

Today is International Women’s Day. Despite improvements in women’s economic wellbeing, opportunities and rights, there remain significant and persistent gender gaps. Can tax and spending policies work better for women and help close these gaps? The answer is yes, BUT: 👇🏻

A blog post on our recent paper is out now on VoxDev!

Kind reminder to submit your work on public finance and structural change to this year's WB-IFS-ODI conference (and help spread the word to your students and colleagues ;-) ) Thanks!

Just a few more days to go to submit to the @theIFS ODI Global | odi-global.bsky.social, World Bank Public Finance conference. If your paper addresses issues of how tax, social security and social assistance policies affect growth & structural transformation.. we want it! 📗➡️🌍⬇️

Unrealistic expectations of domestic tax revenue risk detracting from good tax policy-making in LICs & the urgent need to increase concessional lending and debt relief. ⁦Kyle McNabb⁩ ⁦Tom Hart⁩ ⁦ODI Global | odi-global.bsky.social⁩ odi.org/en/insights/th…

EVENT: Taxing wealth in low- and middle-income countries Friday 23 August | 11am - 1pm | #IIPF2024 Arun Advani, Dario Tortarolo, Diana Hourani & chair Laura Abramovsky explore the evidence in a special session at IIPF - International Institute of Public Finance's Annual Congress. More info: iipf2024.vse.cz

Can the provision of public goods increase tax compliance? In a new working paper with Anne Brockmeyer @annebrockmeyer.bsky.social & Juan Carlos Suárez, we study a large public investment experiment and find that local public infrastructure does not improve property tax compliance in Mexico City. 1/