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Public Childcare, Labor Market Outcomes of Caregivers, and Child Development

Orazio Attanasio et al.

September 25, 2025

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Remarks to the European Parliament on EFSD/ EFSD+

Mikaela Gavas

September 24, 2025

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Analyzing USAID Program Disruptions: Implications for PEPFAR Programming and Beneficiaries

Ramona Godbole

September 17, 2025

Financing of Healthcare Supply Chains in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Pete Baker et al.

September 30, 2025

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Estimating Health Tax Capacity, Effort, and Potential: Evidence from a Global Panel

Sanjeev Gupta et al.

September 15, 2025

Noncommunicable diseases—driven by tobacco use, harmful alcohol consumption, and high-sugar diets—account for over 70 percent of global deaths and impose annual economic losses exceeding US $514 billion. Excise taxes on these health-harming products offer a dual benefit of reducing consumption and r...

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POLICY PAPER

SDG 1 and Corruption: No Poverty

Benedict Clements et al.

August 21, 2025

Achieving SDG 1 requires not only sustained economic growth and robust social protection systems but also a concerted effort to combat corruption, which remains a critical barrier to poverty reduction.

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POLICY PAPER

On the Political Economy Determinants of Tax Reforms: Evidence from Developing Countries

Sanjeev Gupta

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João Tovar Jalles

December 15, 2020

This paper analyzes the role of political variables in the implementation of structural tax reforms in 45 emerging market and low-income economies during 2000-2015.

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POLICY PAPER

Domestic Revenue Mobilization in Low Income Countries: Where To From Here?

Peter Mullins et al.

December 10, 2020

Spending needs for financing the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in developing countries are large and cannot be covered by external flows alone. This has made it imperative for these countries to raise more resources domestically over time—an urgency accentuated by the fiscal impact of COVID-1...

POLICY PAPER

Institutional and Political Determinants of Statutory Tax Rates: Empirical Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

Sanjeev Gupta et al.

November 18, 2020

This paper investigates the extent to which institutional and political factors explain statutory tax rates in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). In particular, it examines the effect of regulatory quality, political accountability, political fragmentation, the electoral cycle, and ideological orientation on...

POLICY PAPER

From Overall Fiscal Space to Budgetary Space for Health: Connecting Public Financial Management to Resource Mobilization in the Era of COVID-19

Hélène Barroy

and

Sanjeev Gupta

October 13, 2020

This paper advances the concept of budgetary space for health, which explores resources available for health that are generated through higher public expenditure, better budget allocations, and through improved public financial management (PFM).

POLICY PAPER

Tax Revenue Reforms and Income Distribution in Developing Countries

Sanjeev Gupta

and

João Tovar Jalles

June 11, 2020

We explore the impact of major revenue mobilization episodes on income distribution dynamics using a new “narrative” database of major policy changes in tax and revenue administration systems, covering 45 emerging and low-income countries from 2000 to 2015.

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Public Childcare, Labor Market Outcomes of Caregivers, and Child Development

TESTIMONY

Remarks to the European Parliament on EFSD/ EFSD+

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Analyzing USAID Program Disruptions: Implications for PEPFAR Programming and Beneficiaries

POLICY PAPER

Financing of Healthcare Supply Chains in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

Economic Impacts of AMR

WORKING PAPER

Modelling the Global Economic Impact of Antimicrobial Resistance in Humans

WORKING PAPER

The Global Direct Inpatient Cost of Antimicrobial Resistance

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Costing Antimicrobial Resistance Interventions

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Forecasting the Fallout from AMR

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Estimating Health Tax Capacity, Effort, and Potential: Evidence from a Global Panel

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SDG 1 and Corruption: No Poverty

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On the Political Economy Determinants of Tax Reforms: Evidence from Developing Countries

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Domestic Revenue Mobilization in Low Income Countries: Where To From Here?

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Institutional and Political Determinants of Statutory Tax Rates: Empirical Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

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From Overall Fiscal Space to Budgetary Space for Health: Connecting Public Financial Management to Resource Mobilization in the Era of COVID-19

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Tax Revenue Reforms and Income Distribution in Developing Countries

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Public Childcare, Labor Market Outcomes of Caregivers, and Child Development

TESTIMONY

Remarks to the European Parliament on EFSD/ EFSD+

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Analyzing USAID Program Disruptions: Implications for PEPFAR Programming and Beneficiaries

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Financing of Healthcare Supply Chains in Low- and Middle-Income Countries

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Modelling the Global Economic Impact of Antimicrobial Resistance in Humans

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The Global Direct Inpatient Cost of Antimicrobial Resistance

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SDG 1 and Corruption: No Poverty

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On the Political Economy Determinants of Tax Reforms: Evidence from Developing Countries

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Domestic Revenue Mobilization in Low Income Countries: Where To From Here?

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Institutional and Political Determinants of Statutory Tax Rates: Empirical Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa

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From Overall Fiscal Space to Budgetary Space for Health: Connecting Public Financial Management to Resource Mobilization in the Era of COVID-19

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Tax Revenue Reforms and Income Distribution in Developing Countries

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