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Giovanni Occhiali quoted in Forbes article

Screenshot of Forbes article quoting Giovanni Occhiali

ICTD Research Fellow Giovanni Occhiali shared his insights in a Forbes article, entitled “Can Improving Taxation in Africa Help Meet Health Needs?“, on the risks and opportunites African countries face in terms of improving current tax systems to address development demands, amidst “waning foreign assistance around the world”. “‘[T]here is a risk that governments facing immediate cuts … might be incentivised to take short-term action that might prove counterpoductive in the long term,'” he said in part.

Giovanni Occhiali

Giovanni Occhiali is a Development Economist based at the Institute of Development Studies, where he works on a number of projects related to Tax Administration and Compliance, Tax and Governance and co-leads ICTD’s capacity building programme together with Dr Max Gallien. His research focuses on Sub-Saharan Africa, and outside of the field of taxation his main interests are energy economics and industrial policies. He holds a PhD from the University of Birmingham and prior to joining ICTD, he was a Researcher at the Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei and an Overseas Development Institute Fellow at the National Revenue Authority of Sierra Leone.
Keywords: public health, Tax and Development
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