Advocata Institute, a Colombo-based think tank, hosted a live forum on how to improve Sri Lanka’s debt sustainability on September 30th. ICTD Senior Fellow Professor Mick Moore was invited to speak. The event was covered in several Sri Lankan media outlets, including DailyFT. Read their article “Eminent economists urge decisive action to prevent emerging debt crisis” summarising Professor Mick Moore’s key points.
ICTD Researcher Mustapha Ndajiwo was recently mentioned in Tax Notes International’s featured analysis “Digital Taxation in Africa: Safety in Numbers?“. The article features Mustapha’s working paper “The Taxation of the Digitalised Economy: An African Study”.
On August 17, Wilson Prichard’s opinion piece “Who should bear the costs of COVID-19?” was published in The Hill Times. Read the piece here.
ICTD Research Fellow and International Tax lead Martin Hearson was mentioned in Forbes‘ article, “How The OECD Became The World’s Tax Leader”
NTRN’s Lead Research Consultant Olly Owen and researcher Tom Goodfellow published their blog “Insecurity underpins property rights in Lagos — no matter what class you are” to The Conversation. The blog was republished by Modern Ghana and All Africa.
ICTD Research Director Giulia Mascagni was quoted in Africa Check‘s article, “Tax incentives cost Kenya 6% of GDP, but there’s no global ‘standard’”
ICTD Research Fellow Max Gallien was featured in the Africa and the Global Illicit Economy podcast in their July 7th episode “Licit Economy Smuggling in the Maghreb and Sahel“. The podcast draws on the Global Initiative Against Transnational Organized Crime’s civil society observatories for North, South, East and West Africa to get a feel for how Organized Crime is impacting some of the world and the continent’s emergency trends and contemporary events. Listen to the podcast here.
ICTD Research Fellow and International Tax lead Martin Hearson spoke to the International Consortium of Investigative Journalists and was quoted in their article, “Zambia becomes second nation to tear up Mauritius tax deal”
On July 2nd, The Economist’s podcast The Intelligence spoke about Freetown’s new property tax system which will raise up to 5x more revenue in a fairer way. The city received technical support from the ICTD and the International Growth Centre (IGC), and aid from the UK government. Read The Economist article about it here. Listen the podcast here, starting at 17:16.
The Economist published an article on June 19 about Freetown’s new property tax system which will raise up to 5x more revenue in a fairer way. Through this process, the city received technical support from the ICTD and International Growth Centre (IGC), and aid from the UK government. Read the article here. Learn more about the reform in our blog “Freetown just implemented a new property tax system that could quintuple revenue“. Learn more about our African Property Tax Initiative here.
ICTD researcher Vanessa van den Boogaard’s blog, “Fill the gaps, feel the pain: Insights from Sierra Leone on an epidemic’s impact on local taxation, public services, and the poor” was mentioned in Tax Notes’ featured analysis “Gender Blind Isn’t Gender Neutral: Why Tax Policy Responses to COVID-19 Must Consider Women” by Michelle Harding, Grace Perez-Navarro, and Hannah Simon. The piece was original published on the OECD Ecoscope blog here.
ICTD Research Fellow Martin Hearson was quoted in Law360’s article, “Failed Trade Negotiations Cast Shadow On Global Tax Talks” published on May 28.
