Policy Projects

Alongside my research I am involved in directly designing, advising and supporting policy and administrative reform program based on findings from my research, and that of colleagues from the International Centre for Tax and Development (ICTD) and Local Government Revenue Initiative (LoGRI).  

Those projects have focused, in particularly, on translating insights from my research about property tax systems in lower-income countries into novel reform programs that have focused on enhancing administrative simplicity, transparency, fairness and accountability in order to improve administrability and public acceptability of reform.  

The full scope of those projects is summarize on the website of the Local Government Revenue Initiative, including overseeing and supporting diagnostic advisory work, pilots and reform initiatives in, among others, Sierra Leone, Cote D'Ivoire, Benin, Togo, Senegal, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Nigeria, Zambia, Malawi, Rwanda, Ethiopia.  A few key and active projects are highlighted below.

Reforming Property Tax Systems in Sierra Leone

Harvard Ministerial Forum

The African Mayoral Leadership Initiative