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July 2025
ICTD, WIEGO extend research partnership on informal sector taxation

The International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with global research and advocacy network WIEGO last week, formalising an existing collaboration on various research around informal sector taxation….

Working Paper

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

News
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February 2025
ICTD launches new collaborative project exploring tax policy in Ghana’s informal sector

Multi-stakeholder event in Accra see launch of new ICTD project building on years of research and policy dialogues, in partnership with WIEGO, on taxation and informal economies in Africa….

Research in Brief

Social Protection, Community Participation and State-citizen Relations: Evidence from a Cash Transfer Programme in South-central Somalia

picture of Makola market in Ghana
January 2025|
Blog

Effective and Equitable Formalisation within the Financing for Development Agenda

by Max Gallien

Max Gallien argues for key changes to the draft text of the Financing for Development outcome document, given that dominant strategies for formalising and taxing the informal economy are often ineffective and highly regressive. …

Journal Article

The taxed informal economy: Fiscal burdens and inequality in Accra

Partner Publication

Taxing Informal Economies: Practices, Challenges & Ways Forward

Event
An art card for the event "Beyond the money: How tax policies are shaping politics and society in Africa". It has a dark blue background and headshots of each of the five speakers.
12 September 2024
Panel: Beyond the money: How tax policies are shaping politics and society in Africa

This interactive panel will discuss the relationship between taxes and trust in the state, elections and public mobilisation, informality, and gendered social relations….

News
Armed Soldiers at Checkpoint near Kabul, Afghanistan
June 2024
How can roadblocks and revenues shape governance? New working paper series launched

The series aims to shed light on checkpoints in conflict contexts across the world and provide a new window into dynamics of authority and power….

Journal Article

Vaccine Hesitancy among Informal Workers: Gendered Geographies of Informality in Lahore

Research in Brief

Beyond Greed: Why Armed Groups Tax

Research in Brief

Rethinking Formalisation: A Conceptual Critique and Research Agenda

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