The research colloquium on global tax governance co-organised by GLOBTAXGOV and the ICTD goes into its fourth season! We are inviting new submissions of abstracts to discuss early-stage original research on global tax governance from various perspectives. The topic Over the last decade, international and regional organisations, in addition to myriad non-state actors, have intensified…
Closing date for applications 31/07/2022,11:59 pm EST Based at the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy, the Local Government Revenue Initiative (LoGRI) was launched in September 2021 to develop policy-relevant research and tools to help local governments in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia collect more local revenue, more equitably and fairly, and in…
The ICTD is pleased to share new learning products from the Tax and Gender Learning Journey, produced by the Institute of Development Studies (IDS). Curated by the Knowledge, Evidence and Learning for Development (K4D) team, a number of ICTD publications have been referenced or added as key resources. Resources Available: Download a new resource pack…
Closing date for applications: Sunday 21st August 2022 The International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) at IDS is seeking to appoint a Post-Doctoral Researcher in International Tax. ICTD’s International Tax programme focuses on three interrelated areas: applicability of international tax standards to lower-income country contexts and consideration of simplification measures; negotiation and evaluation of…
Photo: Dr Piracha presenting his new book to Ngozi Okonjo-Iweala, the Director General of the World Trade Organization The ICTD is very pleased to announce that Dr Mutjaba Piracha has been shortlisted for the Bloomsbury Pakistan Book Prize 2022 for his book “Property Taxes and State Incapacity in Pakistan.” Piracha began his research on this…
DIGITAX is delighted to announce the webinar ‘Ghana’s E-Levy: two months in, what do we know?’. This upcoming webinar is the first in a series of webinars on Taxes and Digital Financial Services (DFS) organised by the International Centre for Tax and Development. The Ghana E-Levy, implemented on 1 May 2022, is a hot and…
As part of the ICTD’s commitment to build research and analysis capacity on tax and development, we are accepting applications for the 2022 ‘Research on Tax and Development’ course until midnight (BST) on 17th of July 2022. The new course includes diverse methodological training, new material on tax and development issues, and individual mentorship for all…
In a bid to enhance operations and improve tax compliance, many tax administrations are investing in digital transformation. In the interest of supporting effective digitization reforms, the ICTD’s Nigerian Tax Research Network (NTRN), in partnership with the African Centre for Tax and Governance (ACTG), is holding a one-day seminar on the digitalisation of tax administration…
For more than 30 years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has designated May 31 as World No Tobacco Day, which aims to inform the public of the danger of using tobacco, the leading preventable cause of death in the world.On this day, we’re pleased to share with you our new website Taxing Tobacco in West…
In this episode of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) podcast Between the Lines, BBC journalist Sana Safi interviews Max Gallien, Research Fellow at IDS and Florian Weigand, co-director at the Centre for the Study of Armed Groups at ODI and research associate at LSE about their book: The Routledge Handbook of Smuggling. Listen now…
Last week it was reported by the world’s largest credit rating agencies that Sri Lanka had defaulted on its national debt. This follows weeks of mounting protests by citizens against the Government led by President Gotabaya Rajapaksa as the country and its population of almost 23 million people face severe shortages of food, fuel and…
The Local Government Revenue Initiative (LoGRI) is planning to conduct policy-oriented research into the reform of property taxation in Senegal, and we are looking for a researcher to join the project alongside Dr. Colette Nyirakamana, Research Lead for LoGRI. The research will have two overlapping but distinct goals. Understanding the broad politics of an ongoing…
