Media and Policy
Blogs and Media
Aid crisis means donors will have to boost tax capacity building, Financial Times, Letter to the Editor, March 2025
Time for a broader, bolder approach to tax justice for women, ICTD blog, March 2025
Addressing Gender Disparities in Tax Expenditures, Council on Economic Policies blog, September 2024
Tax programmes divide UK politics, but there’s one we can all agree on, IDS blog June 2024
VAT in developing countries: flawed, but irreplaceable, VoxDev blog, April 2024
Why taxation should be high on the agenda for Commonwealth leaders, IDS blog, June 2022
Using technology to increase taxpayer compliance: evidence from Ethiopia, VoxDev, April 2022
Pandora’s box is open: What should lower-income countries do to tax the wealthy now?, ICTD blog, October 2021
Open Societies, Tax, and the British Aid Programme, ICTD blog, January 2021
A UK outside of Europe presents a risk to development, IDS blog, January 2021
Buona fortuna alla lotteria degli scontrini, Lavoce.info, December 2020
Taxpayer education: Why it matters and how research can help, ICTD blog, September 2020
Tax incentives cost Kenya 6% of GDP, but there’s no global ‘standard’, Africa Check, June 2020
Policy Advice and Advisory Roles
I am a member of the Technical Advisory Group (TAG) of the Tax Administration Diagnostic Assessment Tool (TADAT), whose role is to advise the TADAT Secretariat on technical aspects of the design and implementation of the diagnostic tool.
I was previously Research Advisor at the Rwanda Revenue Authority (2021-23), Chair of the Advisory Board of ICTD's Digitax research program (2020-2023).
Policy Briefs and Research Summaries
Taxing the Wealthy in Lower-Income Countries: Why It’s Important, and How to Do It, ICTD Policy Brief, 2025
Digital IDs and Digital Payments – Opportunities and Challenges for Tax Administration, ICTD Policy Brief 7, 2024
Towards Gender Equality in Tax and Fiscal Systems: Moving Beyond the Implicit-Explicit Bias Framework, ICTD Policy Brief, 2024
Getting Targets Right: How Much Revenue can Lower-Income Countries Raise? ICTD Policy Brief, 2024
Why Mass Tax Registration Campaigns Do Not Work, ICTD Policy Brief, 2023
Why is Tax Education Important for Compliance?, ICTD Research in Brief, 2018
Africa’s First Large-Scale Tax Experiment: Researching Compliance in Rwanda, ICTD Policy Brief, 2016