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Alex Cobham

Alex is a development economist and chief executive at the international Tax Justice Network, and a visiting fellow at King's College London IDI. Over the last fifteen years Alex has held various policy and research posts, including as a research fellow at the Center for Global Development, as chief policy adviser at Christian Aid and head of research at Save the Children (UK), and at Oxford as a junior economics fellow at St Anne's college and as a researcher at Queen Elizabeth House.
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Publications

Partner Publication

Global distribution of revenue loss from tax avoidance – Re-estimation and country results

March 2017
Alex Cobham & Petr Janský
Research in Brief

The ICTD Government Revenue Dataset

April 2016
Wilson Prichard, Alex Cobham & Andrew Goodall
Working Paper

Measuring Misalignment: the Location of US Multinationals’ Economic Activity Versus the Location of their Profits

November 2015
Alex Cobham & Petr Janský
Working Paper

International Distribution of the Corporate Tax Base: Implications of Different Apportionment Factors under Unitary Taxation

November 2014
Alex Cobham & Simon Loretz
Working Paper

The ICTD Government Revenue Dataset

September 2014
Wilson Prichard, Alex Cobham & Andrew Goodall
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Cobham Jansky 2017 WIDER 14
March 2017|
Blog

Estimating tax avoidance: New findings, new questions

by Alex Cobham

There are now a range of estimates of the global scale of tax avoidance. These include:…

February 2017|
Blog

New Book Examines Alternative Approach to Taxing Multinational Companies

by Alex Cobham

International tax rules for multinational companies appear to be approaching a major crossroads, for three reasons….

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6 June 2024
Webinar: Constructing tax justice – honouring the contributions of Sol Picciotto

Free online event celebrating the work of tax justice expert, Professor Sol Picciotto, in a special issue of the Journal on Financing for Development….

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