Equity, incidence and social protection

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. In these settings, lump-sum severance pay is often the only source of job-loss insurance.

When taxpayers see unfairness, they may stop paying their tax bill

This blog was originally published on voxdev.org on 16 September 2025

Attitudes toward social assistance in low- and middle-income countries (L&MICs)

Voters’ views towards social assistance

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 “

Revolutionising tax audit and compliance in West Africa: lessons from the natural resources sector

This blog was originally published on odi.org on 30 September 2025

Presentation | Taxing capital income and wealth in low- and middle-income countries: practice, principles and gaps

From 9th - 11th June 2025, leading thinkers and policymakers gathered in Helsinki for UNU-WIDER's flagship conference 'Safeguarding tomorrow – innovative approaches to growth and equity' taking pla

Manuel de l’estimation du coût d’une politique fiscale

L’effet des réformes proposées pour une politique fiscale sur le recouvrement des recettes est l’une des considérations les plus importantes des décideurs politiques.

Call for papers: 7th World Bank/ODI Global/IFS Public Finance Conference

7th World Bank/ODI Global/IFS Public Finance Conference

September 25-26, 2025, in London, United Kingdom | Submission by May 15th, 2025

TaxDev collaborating with Government of Ghana on VAT, customs, and distributional analysis

In these videos our partners from the Revenue Policy Division of the Ghanaian Ministry of Finance explain how our joint work is helping to improve specific areas of tax policy analysis and the poli

How Peru transformed natural resource wealth into local economic development

This blog was originally published on voxdev.org on 4 February 2025