Event
Start Date: 24th September 2026 - 9:00 AM
End Date: 25th September 2026 - 1:15 PM
Type: Conference
Location: Washington DC, USA and online
We are pleased to announce the 8th World Bank/ODI Global/IFS Public Finance Conference, to be held in Washington DC on September 24–25, 2026. This annual event brings together researchers and practitioners to discuss frontier research on public finance, with a focus on low- and middle-income countries (L&MICs).
The 2026 conference will feature sessions on tax compliance and administration, economic transformation, social protection across the life cycle, government effectiveness, behavioral responses to taxes and subsidies, and firm responses to public policy and corporate taxation. The agenda also features two special sessions on VAT and AI on the fiscal frontier, highlighting recent research and emerging policy developments in these areas.
We are pleased to feature Nathaniel Hendren, Ford Professor of Economics at MIT, as our keynote speaker.
The conference will take place in-person in Washington DC on September 24-25, 2026 with streaming available for non-presenting attendees.
Laura Abramovsky, Pierre Bachas, Anne Brockmeyer, Rishabh Choudhary, Lucie Gadenne, Pablo Garriga, François Gerard, Hazel Granger, Christopher Hoy, Justine Knebelmann, Kyle McNabb, Joana Naritomi, Panayiotis Nicolaides, Marina Ngoma, Oyebola Okunogbe, Thiago Scot, Mahvish Shaukat, Dario Tortarolo, Yani Tyskerud, Ben Waltmann, Mazhar Waseem.
Visit the conference website here for the full programme.
