Zakat, non-state welfare provision and redistribution in times of crisis: Evidence from the Covid-19 pandemic

With Max Gallien and Umair Javed (2024) Studies in Comparative International Development   (open access).

• Working paper version (ICTD WP 163) (open access)

• • Research summaries: Research Brief

  • Media: Charity and the state (Dawn)

A disease of air-conditioned rooms: Gendered geographies and vaccine hesitancy among informal workers in Lahore

With Max Gallien, Umair Javed, and Shandana Mohmand (2024) Development and Change 54(6): 1504-1527.

• Video summary:  Surviving the city: Vaccine hesitancy among informal workers

The politics of taxation and tax reform in times of crisis: Covid-19 and attitudes towards taxation in Sierra Leone

With Nicolas Orgeira Pillai and Wilson Prichard (2024) Journal of Development Studies 60(2): 196-216.

• Working paper version (open access)

• Research summaries:  Research Brief

Cash transfers, informal taxation, and community participation: Evidence from south-central Somalia

With Fabrizio Santoro and Michael Walker (2023) Social Policy and Administration  57(7): 1181-1198 (open access).

A tax by any other name? Conceptions and perceptions of taxation across languages

With Ane Karoline Bak Foged (2023) Journal of Modern African Studies 61, 2: 303-315 (open access).

Formalisation and its discontents: Conceptual fallacies and ways forward

With Max Gallien (2023) Development and Change 54, 3: 490-513.

• Working paper version (open access)

• Research summaries:  Research Brief/ Twitter thread/ Another Twitter thread

Tax and governance in rural areas: The implications of inefficient tax collection

With Rachel Beach (2023) Journal of International Development 35, 7: 1892-1912 (open access).

• Working paper version (open access)

• Research summaries: Research Brief/ Twitter thread

• Blogs: Local Public Sector Alliance

Co-financing community-driven development through informal taxation: Evidence from south-central Somalia

With Fabrizio Santoro (2023) Governance 36, 2: 499-531.

• Working paper version (open access)

• Research summaries: Research Brief/ Twitter thread

• Blogs:  New evidence from Somalia points to effective ways to deliver public services in conflict-affected and fragile contexts (Africa Portal); Citizens of fragile states can fund public services directly — it's working in Somalia (The Conversation/ allAfrica)

Mobile money taxation and informal workers: Evidence from Ghana's E-levy

With Nana Akua Anyidoho, Max Gallien, and Mike Rogan (2023) Development Policy Review 41, 5: e12704.

• Working paper version (open access)

• Research summaries: Research Brief/ Twitter thread

• Blogs: New data on the e-levy in Ghana: Unpopular tax on mobile money transfers is hitting the poor hard (The Conversation/ Citi NewsRoom/ Graphic Online/ Modern Ghana/ allAfrica)

• Media coverage: GhanaWeb

Financing governance beyond the state: Informal revenue generation in south-central Somalia

With Fabrizio Santoro (2022) African Affairs 121, 485: 569-594.

• Working paper version (open access), Online appendix

• Research summaries: Research Brief, Twitter thread

Beyond greed: Why armed groups tax

With Tanya Bandula-Irwin,  Max Gallien, Ashley Jackson, and Florian Weigand (2022) Studies in Conflict & Terrorism.

• Working paper version (open access)

• Research summaries: Research Brief

• Blogs:  Why do armed groups tax? It's not just about the money/ Pourquoi les groupes armés imposent-ils des taxes? Leurs motifs ne sont pas seulement pécuniers (ICTD)

Enabling tax bargaining: Supporting more meaningful tax transparency and taxpayer engagement in Ghana and Sierra Leone

With Wilson Prichard, Rachel Beach and Fariya Mohiuddin (2022) Development Policy Review 40,1: e12563.

• Working paper version (open access)

• Research summaries: Research Brief/ Résumé de Recherche/ Shɔt TɔK Bɔt Di Risach

Norms, networks, power and control: The multiple facets of informal cross-border trade practices in Sierra Leone

With Wilson Prichard and Samuel Jibao (2021) Journal of Borderlands Studies 36, 1: 77-97.

• Working paper version (open access)

• Research summaries: Research Brief/ Résumé de Recherche/ Twitter thread

Informal taxation in Sierra Leone: Magnitudes, perceptions and implications

With Wilson Prichard and Samuel Jibao (2019) African Affairs 118, 471: 259-284.

• Working paper version (open access)

• Research summaries: Research Brief/ Résumé de Recherche/ Shɔt TɔK Bɔt Di Risach

Tax revenue mobilization in conflict-affected developing countries

With Wilson Prichard, Matthew Sterling Benson and Nikola Milicic (2018) Journal of International Development 30, 2: 345-64.

• Working paper version (open access)

Gender and the formal and informal systems of local public finance in Sierra Leone 

(2018) Politique Africaine 3, 151: 61-86.

• Version française

• Working paper version (open access)

• Research summaries: Research Brief/ Résumé de Recherche/ Shɔt TɔK Bɔt Di Risach

Norms, power and the socially embedded realities of market taxation in northern Ghana

With Wilson Prichard (2017) African Studies Review 60, 1: 171-194.

• Working paper version (open access)

Modern post-colonial approaches to citizenship: Kwame Nkrumah’s political thought on Pan-Africanism

(2017) Citizenship Studies 21, 1: 44-67.