Corruption—Standing in the Way of Effective Public Financial Management for Health?, March 19, 2024 (with Julia Sallaku, David Clarke, Sheila O’Dougherty, Jennifer Asman, Danielle Serebro and Hélène Barroy)
Challenges to Achieving a Grand Convergence in Health Indicators by 2035, December 18, 2023 (with Hannah Brown)
At a Minimum, Donors Should Protect the Health of 140 Million People in Six Countries, November 15, 2023 (with Victoria Fan and Hannah Brown)
Advanced Economies Are Failing to Set a Good Example for Developing Countries on Reforming Tax Expenditures, October 30, 2023
Do Financial Markets Reflect Climate Risks? October 24, 2023 (with Benedict Clements, Joao Jalles, and Bernat Camps Adrogue)
“Is Inclusive Growth Possible in Asia?” August 30, 2023 (with Benedict Clements and Joao Jalles)
“The Resilience and Sustainability Facility’s Recent Programs Still Fall Short of its Ambitious Goals” August 22, 2023 (with Hannah Brown)
“A Fiscal Straitjacket is Stifling Health Spending in Developing Countries” August 2, 2023 (with Benedict Clements and Saida Khamidova)
“What Makes Military Spending Rise? It’s Economic Growth—and What That Means for Future Geopolitics” May 12, 2023 (with Benedict Clements and Saida Khamidova)
“Challenges in Scaling Up IMF Lending for Climate Change and Pandemics” April 27, 2023 (With Hannah Brown)
“How Can the IMF’s New Lending Facility for Climate and Pandemic Preparedness Be Made More Effective?” March 28, 2023 (with Hannah Brown)
“Double Standards in Energy Subsidy Reform? How to Level the Playing Field” January 26, 2023 (Benedict Clements)
“What’s Rising Debt Got to Do With Health Spending?” January 13, 2023 (with Victoria Fan)
“Let Us Not Miss This Opportunity to Prepare for Pandemics through the IMF’s Resilience and Sustainability Trust”, December 13, 2022 (with Javier Guzman and Mark Plant)
“A Looming Crisis of Public Finances Spells Trouble for Universal Health Coverage in Low- and Middle-Income Countries”, November 21, 2022 (with Y-Ling Chi, Javier Guzman and Lydia Regan)
“How Can Local Taxation Strengthen Domestic Revenues? Uganda Offers an Example” October 28, 2022 (with Uzma Ashraf Barton, Kieran Holmes, Adam Kadir, Patrick Kandole, and Tim Robinson)
“The G20’s Climate Plans Don’t Do Enough to Limit Climate Debt” September 9, 2022 (with Benedict Clements and Jianhong Liu)
“Pandemic-era Health Spending Increases in Developing Countries Are Unlikely To Be Sustained,” (with Lucas Salas), June 6, 2022.
“Is It Time to Rationalize Tax Expenditures?” (with Luisa Dressler, Agustin Redonda and Paolo de Renzio), April 18, 2022.
“The Global Implications of the War in Ukraine on Military and Other Spending”, (with Benedict Clements), April 5, 2022.
“Reforming IMF Conditionality to Help Boost Social Spending” November 8
“Avoiding the High Fiscal Costs of Terrorism in the Post-COVID Era,” June 30, 2021 (with Benedict Clements, Joao Tovar Jalles and Saida Khamidova)
“Low-Income Developing Countries Will Surely Need More Debt Relief Down the Line,” June 23, 2021 (with Benedict Clements, Joao Tovar Jalles and Victor Mylonas)
“What Would a Biden Climate Plan Look Like for the Whole World?”, May 24, 2021 (Benedict Clements and Jianhong Liu)
“$57 Trillion Additional Climate Debt Calls for Policy Action by G20”, (with B. Clements and J. Liu), March 30, 2021
“Tax Reforms in Developing Countries in an Era of COVID-19” (with Joao Jalles), March 2, 2021
“Elections and Political Cohesion Can Promote Tax Reforms” (with Joao Jalles), December 15, 2020
“What Influences Tax Rates in Sub-Saharan Africa?” (with J. Liu and Kelsey Ross), November 18, 2020
“Introducing a Dashboard for Assessing Fiscal Policy in Low-Income Countries”, (with Jean-Luc Schneider), October 14, 2020
“Exploring the Feasibility of Medium-Term Revenue Strategies in Developing Countries,” (with Peter Mullins), Center for Global Development, July 31, 2020.
“COVID-19 and Seizing the Opportunity for Reforming Tax Expenditures in Africa,” (with Agustin Redonda), Center for Global Development, July 27, 2020
“Measuring Domestic Resource Mobilization–Thoughts on a New Study by NORAD,” (with Mark Plant), Center for Global Development, July 24, 2020.
“Well-Designed Tax Reforms Can Improve Income Distribution in Developing Countries,” (with Joao Jalles), Center for Global Development, June 11, 2020.
“While Creating Fiscal Space for COVID-19 in Developing Countries, Be Sure to Consult Civil Society”, (with Andrew Wainer and Mark Plant), Center for Global Development, April 29, 2020.
“The COVID-19 Crisis and Budgetary Space for Health in Developing Countries,” (Helen Barroy), Center for Global Development, April 17, 2020
“Tax Revenues in Africa Will be Insufficient to Finance Development Goals”, (with Jianhong Liu), Center for Global Development, March 10, 2020.
“Sub-Saharan Africa and International Taxation: Time for Unilateral Action?”, (with Peter Mullins), Center for Global Development, January 22, 2020.
“Grand Bargain to reduce to tax exemptions?”, Center for Global, Development, January 7, 2020
“Strengthening Revenue Performance in Africa Requires Tough Political Decisions” (with Mark Plant), Center for Global Development, October 31, 2019
“Converging Military Spending and Its Fiscal Consequences” (with Benedict Clements and Saida Khamidova), Center for Global Development, October 7, 2019
“Converging Military Spending and Its Fiscal Consequences” (with Benedict Clements and Saida Khamidova), VOX.eu, October 6, 2019
Achieving the SDGs Will Require More than Revenue Increases (Magdi Ahmed), Center for Global Development, September 11, 2019
Tax to Finance the SDGs, but Not to Undermine Them (with Wilson Prichard, Nora Lustig, Warren Krafchik, Ian Gary, Brahima Coulibaly) Center for Global Development, July 1, 2019
Enhancing Domestic Resource Mobilization: What are the Real Obstacles? (with Mark Plant) Center for Global Development, April 30, 2019
“What Have We Learned from Expenditure Conditionality in IMF Programs?” Center for Global Development, November 12,2018.
“Achieving the SDGs will require more than domestic resource mobilization,” DEVEX, World Bank, October 12, 2018
“The Road to Universal Health Coverage in Eastern Mediterranean Will be Paved with Tough Policy Choices”, Center for Global Development, September 24, 2018
“Time to Pay More Attention to Tax Expenditures”, Center for Global Development, August 1, 2018
“Merely Collecting More Taxes is Not Enough to Achieve the SDGs”, Center for Global Development, July 17, 2018
“On the Equity-Friendly Property Tax: Time for Developing Countries to Invest?” Center for Global Development, April 25, 2018 (with Nancy Birdsall)
“Can Fiscal Rules and Institutions Soften the Impact of Politics?” Center for Global Development, March 30,2018.
“Digital Revolutions in Public Finance”, March 7, 2018 (with Michael Keen, Alpa Shah and Genevieve Verdier) VoxEU.
“Building Fiscal Institutions in Fragile States,” IMFBlog, August 9, 2017 (with Katherine Baer and Mario Pessoa).
“Politics and Budgets,” Public Financial Management Blog, July 5, 2017 (with Vitor Gaspar and Carlos Mulas-Granados).
“Politics and Budgets,” EconoMonitor, June 27, 2017 (with Vitor Gaspar and Carlos Mulas-Granados).
“Public Spending on Health Care under IMF-Supported Programs,” IMFdirect, March 9, 2017 (with Baoping Shang).
“Preventing the new mediocre from becoming the new reality: The role of fiscal policy,”
VOXEU, July 18, 2015 (with Bernardin Akitoby and Abdelhak Senhadji).
“Global Energy Subsidies Are Big – About US$5 Trillion Big,” IMFdirect, May 18, 2015
(with Michael Keen).
“What Happens to Public Health Spending in IMF-Supported Programs? Another Look, IMFdirect, December 21, 2014 (with Benedict
Clements and Masahiro Nozaki).
“Pension Reform and Equity” VoxEU.org, July 17, 2014 (with Benedict Clements, and Csaba Feher).
“Managing the Revenue from Natural Resources-What’s a Finance Minister to do?” With Enrique Flores, IMFDIRECT, June 9, 2014.
“Revenue substitution in resource-rich economies: Evidence from a new dataset” With Ernesto Crivelli, 27 May 2014,VOXEU”
“The Future of the State Revisited: Reforming Public Expenditure”
With Martine Guerguil, IMFDIRECT, April 16 2014
“Taxing, spending, and inequality – what is to be done? “
With Benedict Clements, David Coady, and Ruud de Mooij, VOXEU, 15 April 2014
“Public Finances Are on the Mend, but No Clean Bill of Health”
With Martine Guerguil, IMFDIRECT, April 9 2014
“Fiscal adjustment and growth: Beware of the credit constraints”
With Emanuele Baldacci and Carlos Mulas-Granados, VOXEU, 31 March 2014
“Meeting Rising Pressures to Address Income Inequality-A User’s Guide” with Michael Keen
“Participación equitativa” with David Coady Diálogo a fondo, enero 17, 2013
“Fiscal Smarts and the Numbers Behind Inequality” By David Coady and Sanjeev Gupta
The World Bank—News & Views, October 9, 2012
“Can Policymakers Stem Rising Income Inequality?” IMFdirect, June 28, 2012 (with David Coady)
“Healthcare Reform: Difficult but not Impossible”, VOXEU, June 24, 2012 (with Benedict Clements and David Coady)
“When Reality Doesn’t Bite—Misconceptions about the IMF and Social Spending” By Benedict Clements and Sanjeev Gupta
IMFdirect, August 31, 2011
