Harvard CID Brings Student Voices and Policy Innovation to the Global StageAmid growing global challenges and constrained financial…
As part of the preparatory activities for the UN’s International Conference on Financing for Development (Ff4D), to be held in Seville,…
Once upon a time in the world of development finance, it was assumed that simply investing in developing economies was enough—that the flow…
Income inequality is high and persistent in developing countries. In this paper, we ask what role taxation can or might play in reducing…
Exploiting a new global macro-historical database of effective tax rates, we uncover an intriguing pro-tax-capacity effect of international…
Decades of low inflation led to widespread use of dollar-denominated financial instruments with fixed interest rates and long maturities.…
We estimate the equilibrium effects of a public school grant program administered through school councils in Pakistani villages with…
The issue of debt sustainability has been the focus of continued theoretical and practical interest over the years. In emerging markets,…
We compare two approaches to increasing tax revenue: tax administration and tax rates. We show that when Indonesia moved top regional firms…
• The COVID-19 pandemic has placed unprecedented strain on public finances across developing countries. Large fiscal responses and weak…