Many countries try to meet distributional considerations through the tax system, leading to lower revenues and ineffective distribution and distortions that lower growth potential. Is it possible to improve distributional outcomes and growth potential by designing effective benefit systems, with efficient revenue generation through a tax system that is simple and easy to administer? Distinguishing features of developing countries include incomplete policy tools (on both tax and spending sides), informality, evasion and leakages.

The aim of this workshop is to establish a cross-country policy-oriented research project to examine the joint interactions between social policy design and tax reform options in developing countries.

Hosts

LSE Asia Research Centre

Supporters

Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)
ZEF

Participants

Anthony Atkinson, LSE

Ehtisham Ahmad|, LSE

Surjit Bhalla, Oxus Research and Investments

Greg Fischer, LSE

Chris Heady, DFID and University of Kent

Koki Hirota, JICA

Ruth Kattumuri|, LSE

Santiago Levy, IDB

Alvaro Manoel, World Bank

Rene Osorio, IDB

Carmen Pages, IDB

Govinda Rao, National Institute of Public Finance and Policy

Jean-Luc Schneider, OECD

Nick Stern|, LSE

Rosalia Vasquez-Alvarez, University of St. Gallen

Luiz Villela, IDB

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