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Institute for Fiscal Studies

Research Publications

This page features publications by the TaxDev team, partners, and affiliated researchers.

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Comparing tax and benefit microsimulation models: a guide for analysts in low- and middle-income countries

Distributional analysis is a crucial component of policymaking....

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Formal Labor Market Dynamics and Development

This paper studies formal employment dynamics using linked employer–employee data from eight countries spanning a wide income range from Kenya to C...

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Mitigating the Consequences of Job Loss in Lower-Income Countries: Evidence from Ethiopia

Job loss is an understudied risk for formal workers in lower-income countries....

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Job Displacement Insurance in Developing Countries

This chapter is part of The Handbook of Social Protection: Evidence and New Directions for Low- and Middle-Income Countries, a comprehensi...

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Principles of taxation for mining operations in Uganda

This report was originally published on odi.org...

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Algorithms and bureaucrats: evidence from tax audit selection in Senegal

This Working Paper was originally published on worldbank.org on 5...

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Firm networks and tax compliance: experimental evidence from Uganda

How do policy interventions diffuse through firm transaction networks?...

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Building fairer fiscal systems: principles and tools to design a holistic approach for closing gender gaps

This article is part of the Brookings Center for Sustainable Development compendium “...

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Ethiopia publishes major new tax-to-GDP ratio report

The Ethiopian Ministry of Finance has published a major new report: Ethiopia’s tax-to-GDP ratio....

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On the relationship between corruption perception and tax morale: does natural resource abundance matter?

Using data from the latest wave of the Afrobarometer surveys, the study examines the heterogeneous effect of corruption perception on tax morale ac...

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