Nicolas Orgeira Pillai, Vanessa van den Boogaard and Wilson Prichard (2024) The politics of taxation and tax reform in times of crisis: Covid-19 and attitudes towards taxation in Sierra Leone, Journal of Development Studies 60(2): 196-216.

• Working paper version (open access)

• Research summaries:  Research Brief

Max Gallien, Umair Javed, Shandana Mohmand and Vanessa van den Boogaard (2024) A disease of air-conditioned rooms: Gendered geographies and vaccine hesitancy among informal workers in Lahore, Development and Change 54(6): 1504-1527.

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

Vanessa van den Boogaard and Ane Karoline Bak Foged (2023) A tax by any other name? Conceptions and perceptions of taxation across languages, Journal of Modern African Studies 61, 2: 303-315 (open access).

Max Gallien and Vanessa van den Boogaard (2023) Formalisation and its discontents: Conceptual fallacies and ways forward, Development and Change 54, 3: 490-513.

• Working paper version (open access)

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

Vanessa van den Boogaard and Rachel Beach (2023) Tax and governance in rural areas: The implications of inefficient tax collection, 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

Vanessa van den Boogaard and Fabrizio Santoro (2023) Co-financing community-driven development through informal taxation: Evidence from south-central Somalia, 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)

Nana Akua Anyidoho, Max Gallien, Mike Rogan and Vanessa van den Boogaard (2023) Mobile money taxation and informal workers: Evidence from Ghana's E-levy, Development Policy Review 41, 5: e12704.

• Working paper version (open access)

• Research summaries: 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

Vanessa van den Boogaard and Fabrizio Santoro (2022) Financing governance beyond the state: Informal revenue generation in south-central Somalia, African Affairs 121, 485: 569-594.

• Working paper version (open access), Online appendix

• Research summaries: Research Brief, Twitter thread

Tanya Bandula-Irwin,  Max Gallien, Ashley Jackson, Vanessa van den Boogaard and Florian Weigand (2022) Beyond greed: Why armed groups tax, 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)

Vanessa van den Boogaard,  Wilson Prichard, Rachel Beach and Fariya Mohiuddin (2022) Enabling tax bargaining: Supporting more meaningful tax transparency and taxpayer engagement in Ghana and Sierra Leone, Development Policy Review 40,1: e12563.

• Working paper version (open access)

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

Vanessa van den Boogaard, Wilson Prichard and Samuel Jibao (2021) Norms, networks, power and control: The multiple facets of informal cross-border trade practices in Sierra Leone, Journal of Borderlands Studies 36, 1: 77-97.

• Working paper version (open access)

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

Vanessa van den Boogaard, Wilson Prichard and Samuel Jibao (2019) Informal taxation in Sierra Leone: Magnitudes, perceptions and implications, African Affairs 118, 471: 259-284.

• Working paper version (open access)

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

Vanessa van den Boogaard, Wilson Prichard, Matthew Sterling Benson and Nikola Milicic (2018) Tax revenue mobilization in conflict-affected developing countries, Journal of International Development 30, 2: 345-64.

• Working paper version (open access)

Vanessa van den Boogaard (2018) Gender and the formal and informal systems of local public finance in Sierra Leone , 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

Wilson Prichard and Vanessa van den Boogaard (2017) Norms, power and the socially embedded realities of market taxation in northern Ghana, African Studies Review 60, 1: 171-194.

• Working paper version (open access)

Vanessa van den Boogaard (2017) Modern post-colonial approaches to citizenship: Kwame Nkrumah’s political thought on Pan-Africanism, Citizenship Studies 21, 1: 44-67.