Social protection and transfers

Presentation | Sub-national funding arrangements and fiscal equalisation in the United Kingdom

On 27th January 2026, policymakers from Nigeria’s Revenue Mobilisation Allocation and Fiscal Commission (RMAFC) gathered at Keble College - Oxford University for a workshop on Fiscal Federalism and

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

Voters’ views towards social assistance

How Peru transformed natural resource wealth into local economic development

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

Cash transfers and the local economy: evidence from Brazil

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

Look beyond the tampon tax: alternative solutions to close gender gaps

This blog was originally published on odi.org on 10 July 2024

Fiscal policy and gender income inequality: the role of taxes and social spending

Despite the challenges in measuring economic resources at the individual level in a consistent manner across countries, estimates suggest that women are often more likely to be poorer, to live in p

TaxDev researchers participate in the NTA conference

TaxDev researchers, Daniel Prinz, Dario Tortarolo, and Ross Warwick recently participated in the

Well-designed tax policy reforms are key to successful post-COVID fiscal consolidation in Africa

Given the massive impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on public finances globally, it is little surprise that the IMF’s October 2021 forecasts of debt and debt servicing costs in sub-Saharan Africa are

Informal taxes and transfers in sub-Saharan Africa: a review and analysis of incidence in Rwanda

This paper profiles and analyses informal taxes and transfer payments made by households in Rwanda, and considers their incidence, scale and distributional effects on household welfa

Religious taxes and transfers in Pakistan

Analysing the fiscal incidence of religious taxes and transfers