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Resource windfalls, public expenditures and local economies

This paper uses plausibly exogenous variation in the redistribution of natural resource tax revenues in Peru to study whether transfers to local gov...

News

Announcement: François Gerard joins TaxDev as new Research Director

We are pleased to announce the appointment of François Gerard as TaxDev’s new Research Director....

Francois Gerard

Publication

Cash Transfers and the Local Economy: Evidence from Brazil

Cash transfers have been adopted worldwide and credited with significant reductions in poverty....

News

Job announcement: Senior Technical Advisors

ODI is seeking applications for Senior Technical Advisors (STA) to work closely with TaxDev Country Economists and partners in country governments....

Blog

Reform or Replace? Three country perspectives on the use of tax incentives for structural transformation

This blog was originally published on odi.org on 23 October 2024 ...

News

Survey of the Ghanaian Tax System

Ghana’s Ministry of Finance (MoF) has published an updated Survey of the Ghanaian Tax System, produced jointly with TaxDev researchers from the Institute for Fiscal Studies (UK)....

Event

6th World Bank/IFS/ODI Public Finance Conference | Driving Progress: Public Finance and Structural Transformation

This conference brought together leading researchers and policymakers to discuss recent research on the political economy of public finances....

Picture of workers looking at electricity pylons with details of the 6th World Bank/IFS/ODI Public Finance Conference

Blog

How Rwanda embedded tax expenditure reporting: 7 key lessons for practitioners

This blog was originally published on odi.org on 29 September 2024 ...

News

Ugandan Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development publishes tax expenditure report for 2022/23

In August 2024 the Ministry of Finance, Planning and Economic Development (MoFPED) published its tax expenditure report for the fiscal year 2022/23....

Blog

The problem with tax potential estimates – key considerations to develop sustainable tax systems

This blog was originally published on odi.org on 3 June 2024 ...

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