Tax and Public Finance
Improved taxation is a key for developing countries to escape from aid or singular natural resource dependency.
Current projects
Jun 2021 - Jun 2025
The TaxCapDev-network (phase III)
Jan 2020 - Dec 2024
Strengthening Fragile States through Taxation (FRAGTAX)
Feb 2020 - Dec 2023
Public services, security and the legacy of pre-colonial states in Uganda
Apr 2019 - Dec 2023
Tax Compliance, VAT Revenues and Business Development in Tanzania
Completed projects
Sep 2022 - Oct 2022
Norad Governance and Transparency Section: Theory of Change
Jan 2017 - May 2021
TaxCapDev-network
Jul 2014 - Dec 2019
Tanzania as a Future Petro-State: Prospects and Challenges
Sep 2016 - Mar 2018
Mapping Tax Compliance Cost for Businesses in Africa
Jul 2017 - Feb 2018
Taxation in fragile states
Mar 2017 - Dec 2017
Experiences with Electronic Fiscal Devices (EFDs) in Tanzania
Feb 2017 - Aug 2017
Tax evasion: a review of the literature
Feb 2016 - Jun 2017
Taxing the urban boom in Tanzania: Interests, incentives and real estate in Dar
May 2015 - Apr 2016
Electronic Sales Register Machines, Tax Enforcement and Tax outcomes
Feb 2013 - Jun 2013
Revenue mobilization at sub-national levels in Sudan
Nov 2010 - Mar 2012
International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD)
Jan 2011 - Dec 2011
The political-economy of property tax collection in Tanzania
Nov 2010 - Dec 2011
Peoples' views of taxation in Africa
Nov 2010 - Dec 2011
Local government taxation and tax administration in Africa
Aug 2010 - Dec 2011
The tax systems in Mozambique, Tanzania and Zambia: capacity and constraints
Aug 2010 - Dec 2010
The Construction Transparency Initiative (CoST)
Feb 2010 - Dec 2010
Linking procurement and political economy
Nov 2009 - Dec 2010
The Basics of Integrity in Procurement. A Guidebook
Oct 2009 - Dec 2010
Capital flight and the banking sector
Oct 2008 - Dec 2010
Participation, representation and taxation in local governance in Angola
May 2009 - Oct 2009
From curse to development: Natural resources, institutions and public revenues
Mar 2008 - Aug 2008
The Political Economy of Natural Resource Management - Ghana and Nigeria
Building welfare
Improved taxation is a key for developing countries to escape from aid or singular natural resource dependency.
We study how governments in poor countries can raise financial resources in ways that enhance their effectiveness and political legitimacy. Through high quality, practically-oriented political economy research and communication activities, our research has informed reform agendas and policy debates on tax reforms in developing countries for decades.
We provide both empirical and theoretical insights and policy recommendations to governments, development agencies, private enterprises and civil society.
Our research and evaluation expertise:
- Tax compliance
- Taxation and governance
- Tax reform in natural resource rich countries
- Sub-national and informal sector taxation
- Intra-governmental fiscal relations
- International taxation and capital flows
- Tax and SDGs