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Taxing effectively

Four ways in which technology and behavioural insights can improve tax collection in Pakistan

Hina Shaikh
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Taxing effectively

How does profit shifting enable tax avoidance in developing countries?

Saugata Mittra
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Residents line up
Taxing effectively

Electronic invoice monitoring systems to improve tax compliance: Evidence from Pakistan

Adnan Khan, Anders Jensen, Hamza Afsar, Michael Best, Sher Afghan Asad, Zarnaab Ather
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Zambian students training
Taxing effectively

Zambia's debt crisis is affecting its ability to collect tax

Twivwe Siwale, Boyang Gong
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Using technology to improve local revenue collection: Evidence from Malawi

Victoria Delbridge, Lennart Fleck, Dyson Jangia
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Why does Bangladesh tax so little?

Ashfaqul Chowdhury, Aminul Aman
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Is discrimination in access to capital behind gender gaps in business in Ethiopia?

Ketki Sheth, Shanthi Manian

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Commercial Bank of Ethioipia lobby
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Why conflict hurts women most and the need for coordinated interventions

Helene Donnat

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Woman holds baby near makeshift tents in Gaza
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Women and health in India

Nalini Gulati

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Going the last mile (with evidence)

Jen Pinkowski

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COVID-19 Vaccines in Sierra Leone
Gender equality
كيف يمكن للدين أن يشجع النساء على الحفاظ على المياه في الأردن؟

Giulia Buccione, Camilla Sacchetto, Salma Shaheen

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A woman stands behind a sitting man next to a cistern and a mural on a temporary shelter showing a dripping tap with a caption reading in Arabic "Water = Life", at the Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan.
Gender equality
How religion can encourage women to conserve water in Jordan

Giulia Buccione, Camilla Sacchetto, Salma Shaheen

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A woman stands behind a sitting man next to a cistern and a mural on a temporary shelter showing a dripping tap with a caption reading in Arabic "Water = Life", at the Zaatari refugee camp in northern Jordan.
Gender equality
What prevents women’s labour force participation in Pakistan?

Sakina Shibuya, Zunia Saif Tirmazee

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A woman sewing a pillow cover with a machine in Pakistan.
Gender equality
Paternalistic gender discrimination: Evidence from labour markets in Bangladesh

Nina Caroline Buchmann, Carl Meyer, Colin D. Sullivan

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Women bricklayers repair bridge in Bangladesh
Evaluating economic gains to urban investments and policies: Introducing IGC’s Cities Spatial Model

Victoria Delbridge, Maria del Mar Gómez, Nick Tsivanidis, Román David Zárate

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Bus rapid transit system in Bogota
The economics of urban planning: Why land and labour markets matter

Juliana Oliveira-Cunha

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