Gayatri Sahgal

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Biography

Gayatri Sahgal is a tax researcher and a postdoctoral scholar at the University of Pennsylvania. She obtained her PhD from Oxford University in 2023. Her research focuses on the political economy of taxation in fragile and developing country contexts. Gayatri’s research is informed by a decade of work as a research and monitoring evaluation specialist.

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Partner Publication

Beyond the state, but reinforcing it? Informal tax institutions and state legitimacy in the Democratic Republic of Congo

Vanessa van den Boogaard, Yannick Lokaya Bokasola, Gayatri Sahgal, Caleb Jérémie Dohou

Journal Article

The state-capital nexus in fragile contexts: a case study of tax relations in Somalia

Research in Brief

Informality, Tax, and Markets in Kinshasa: Everyday Realities and Resistance

Yannick Lokaya Bokasola, Eddy Junior Ngwakoyo, Gayatri Sahgal, Vanessa van den Boogaard

Working Paper

Informality, Tax, and Markets in Kinshasa: Everyday Realities and Resistance

Yannick Lokaya Bokasola, Eddy Junior Ngwakoyo, Gayatri Sahgal, Vanessa van den Boogaard

Working Paper

Unpacking Tax Relations in Contexts of Fragility: A Case Study of Somalia

Research in Brief

Unpacking Tax Relations in Contexts of Fragility: A Case Study of Somalia

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19 February 2025

ICTD study on tax relations in fragile contexts featured in ASI blog

A blog published by global think tank ASI discussed in depth a recent ICTD working paper authored by Gayatri Saghal…