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Working Paper

Participation, Legitimacy and Fiscal Capacity in Weak States: Evidence from Participatory Budgeting

June 2025
Kevin Grieco, Abou Bakarr Kamara, Niccoló Meriggi, Julian Michel, Wilson Prichard

Journal Article

Tax reform coalitions for urban development: the politics of property tax reform in Sierra Leone

February 2025
Vanessa van den Boogaard

Journal Article

Sub-national property tax reform and tax bargaining: Lessons from a quasi-randomized reform program in Sierra Leone

October 2024
Wilson Prichard, Samuel Jibao, Nicolas Orgeira Pillai

Research in Brief

How Might the National Revenue Authority of Sierra Leone Enhance Revenue Collection by Taxing High Net Worth Individuals?

September 2024
Jalia Kangave, Giovanni Occhiali, Ishmail Kamara, Evert-jan Quak

Research in Brief

Implementation Obstacles and Political Appeal of Environmental Taxes in Sub-Saharan Africa: Reflections from Selected Countries

July 2024
Giovanni Occhiali, Evert-jan Quak

Research in Brief

Building Fiscal Capacity with Traditional Political Institutions: Experimental and Qualitative Evidence from Sierra Leone

July 2024
Kevin Grieco

Working Paper

Building Fiscal Capacity with Traditional Political Institutions: Experimental and Qualitative Evidence from Sierra Leone

May 2024
Kevin Grieco

Working Paper

Can Rural Property Tax Generate Revenue? A Simple Accounting Exercise in Sierra Leone

March 2024
Kevin Grieco
West African governments must increase taxes on tobacco for better health and public finances
31 May 2021

West African governments must increase taxes on tobacco for better health and public finances

Jean Tesche

For more than 30 years, the World Health Organization (WHO) has designated May 31 as World No Tobacco Day, which…

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The inequity of informal financing of public education in Sierra Leone
27 November 2020

The inequity of informal financing of public education in Sierra Leone

Vanessa van den Boogaard

Though education is a core duty of the state, public education in Sierra Leone is financed not only by the…

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Freetown just implemented a new property tax system that could quintuple revenue
22 May 2020

Freetown just implemented a new property tax system that could quintuple revenue

Wilson Prichard, Abou Bakarr Kamara, Niccoló Meriggi

In the next few weeks, residents of Freetown are expecting to receive new property tax bills as part of a…

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Unpacking Formalisation: The need for a new research agenda on taxation and the informal economy
21 April 2020

Unpacking Formalisation: The need for a new research agenda on taxation and the informal economy

Max Gallien, Vanessa van den Boogaard

ICTD Informality and Taxation blog series The ICTD’s Informality and Tax programme seeks to conduct, connect, and support novel research…

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Fill the gaps, feel the pain: Insights from Sierra Leone on an epidemic’s impact on local taxation, public services, and the
25 March 2020

Fill the gaps, feel the pain: Insights from Sierra Leone on an epidemic’s impact on local taxation, public services, and the poor

Vanessa van den Boogaard

With over 16,000 deaths globally and the number of cases growing each day, the calamitous impacts of the novel coronavirus…

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Can property tax valuation in Africa be simplified? Lessons from a pilot project in Freetown, Sierra Leone
27 November 2019

Can property tax valuation in Africa be simplified? Lessons from a pilot project in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Abou Bakarr Kamara, Graeme Stewart-Wilson, Julian Michel, Kevin Grieco, Niccoló Meriggi, Wilson Prichard

Across sub-Saharan Africa, ineffective property valuation presents a serious hurdle to strengthening local property taxes. Between January and August 2019…

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New World Bank framework for tax reform developed in partnership with the ICTD
28 February 2022

New World Bank framework for tax reform developed in partnership with the ICTD

In many developing countries, tax revenues remain far below levels needed to provide citizens with basic services or fund extra…

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Dr Vanessa van den Boogaard authors best political science PhD in Canada
15 June 2021

Dr Vanessa van den Boogaard authors best political science PhD in Canada 

Photo: Dr van den Boogaard conducting fieldwork with research assistants in Sierra Leone. ICTD Research Fellow Dr Vanessa van den…

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Our new resource page on tobacco taxation
3 June 2020

Our new resource page on tobacco taxation

May 31st was World No Tobacco Day. Every year, tobacco use causes more than 8 million deaths globally, and 80%…

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ICTD's Vanessa van den Boogaard presents at CSW
20 March 2019

ICTD’s Vanessa van den Boogaard presents at CSW

ICTD Research Fellow Vanessa van den Boogaard participated in the Commission on the Status of Women’s sixty-third session at the…

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Completed

The Political Economy of Property Tax Reform in Freetown, Sierra Leone: Lessons from an Innovative Reform Programme

Start date: 12/10/2022

Completed

Can Traditional Political Institutions Help the State Raise Taxes? Experimental Evidence from Sierra Leone

Start date: 01/09/2022

Completed

Can rural property taxation generate revenue? Measuring costs and potential revenue in Sierra Leone

Start date: 22/02/2021

Current

Revenue shortfalls from domestic and trade taxes in the wake of COVID: evidence from Eswatini, Rwanda, Uganda, Sierra Leone and South Africa

Start date: 04/05/2020

Current

Tobacco tax reform in West Africa

Start date: 22/10/2018

Current

Compliance, Accountability and the Social Contract: Studying the Impacts of Property Tax Reform in Freetown, Sierra Leone

Start date: 25/11/2019

Completed

Rethinking Tax Morale

Start date: 05/07/2019

Completed

Learning from Successful Reform in Sierra Leone

Start date: 01/06/2019
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