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Gayatri Sahgal

Gayatri Sahgal is a tax researcher and a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. She obtained her PhD from Oxford University in 2023. Her research focuses on the political economy of taxation in fragile and developing country contexts. Gayatri’s research is informed by a decade of work as a research and monitoring evaluation specialist.
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Publications

Partner Publication

Beyond the state, but reinforcing it? Informal tax institutions and state legitimacy in the Democratic Republic of Congo

February 2026
Vanessa van den Boogaard, Yannick Lokaya Bokasola, Gayatri Sahgal & Caleb Jérémie Dohou
Journal Article

The state-capital nexus in fragile contexts: a case study of tax relations in Somalia

August 2025
Gayatri Sahgal
Research in Brief

Informality, Tax, and Markets in Kinshasa: Everyday Realities and Resistance

August 2025
Yannick Lokaya Bokasola, Eddy Junior Ngwakoyo, Gayatri Sahgal & Vanessa van den Boogaard
Working Paper

Informality, Tax, and Markets in Kinshasa: Everyday Realities and Resistance

May 2025
Yannick Lokaya Bokasola, Eddy Junior Ngwakoyo, Gayatri Sahgal & Vanessa van den Boogaard
Working Paper

Unpacking Tax Relations in Contexts of Fragility: A Case Study of Somalia

January 2025
Gayatri Sahgal
Research in Brief

Unpacking Tax Relations in Contexts of Fragility: A Case Study of Somalia

January 2025
Gayatri Sahgal
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International Centre for Tax and Development, Institute of Development Studies (IDS) Brighton, BN1 9RE, United Kingdom
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