Mick Moore

Mick Moore

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Biography

Professor Mick Moore is a Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies and the founding CEO of the International Centre for Tax and Development. He is a political economist whose broad research interests are in the domestic and international dimensions of good and bad governance in poor countries, focusing specifically on taxation in Asia and Africa.

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Book

Taxation and State-Building in Developing Countries: Capacity and Consent

January 2008
Deborah Brautigam, Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Mick Moore
The Sustainable Development Goals – Reject Tax Targeting
16 April 2015

The Sustainable Development Goals – Reject Tax Targeting

There is good news in the agenda for the Third Financing for Development Conference to be held in Addis Ababa…

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How Property Tax Would Benefit Africa
26 January 2015

How Property Tax Would Benefit Africa

New publication by Nara Monkam and Mick Moore The developmental benefits of governments taxing citizens, even for modest sums, are…

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18 July 2014

Tax Justice Campaigning: Is Tough Always Smart?

  The Tax Justice Network has just published a report that starts from the assertion that the OECD and the…

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19 February 2014

India’s firm stance on tax could actually help investors

  India keeps getting into arguments with foreign firms over tax; is it wise to do so? The Financial Times,…

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19 July 2013

Measuring the Performance of Tax Collectors: Good Sense, Quietly Buried

Does Argentina collect its taxes more efficiently and effectively than Azerbaijan? Brazil than Burundi? Chad than Colombia? You can find…

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23 May 2013

The Great Tax Awakening? Three Reservations

  Never has there been such extensive popular and political interest in tax reform. Never have so many governments declared…

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Conference: Revisiting the past, looking to future -- Moving beyond the fiscal contract?

Conference: Revisiting the past, looking to future — Moving beyond the fiscal contract?

In person

21 October 2025 – 17:30

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Timezone: Europe/Oslo

Litteraturhuset, Wergelandsveien, Oslo, Norway
ICTD’s Mick Moore and Vanessa van den Boogaard to participate in panel sessions for the TaxCapDev conference on ‘moving beyond the fiscal contract’.
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Panel: Debt & Tax Dialogue

Panel: Debt & Tax Dialogue

Virtual

3 September 2025 – 03:30

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Timezone: UTC

ICTD Research Fellow Mick Moore will be speaking at Arutha’s Debt & Tax Dialogue on fair and efficient tax solutions on 3rd of September.
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ICTD CEO signs letter addressing the unfair visa system in the UK
18 June 2019

ICTD CEO signs letter addressing the unfair visa system in the UK

ICTD CEO Mick Moore signed a letter in the Guardian calling out the prejudice of the UK’s Home Office, which…

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Taxing Africa reviewed by Foreign Affairs magazine
11 March 2019

Taxing Africa reviewed by Foreign Affairs magazine

ICTD’s book “Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform and Development” was reviewed by Nicolas van de Walle in Foreign Affairs’ January/February 2019…

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15 November 2018

Horn Cable TV covers Taxing Africa event in Hargeisa

Horn Cable TV recently livestreamed “Taxation and Statebuilding. Should Somaliland Love Taxes?”, a launch event for “Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform…

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Taxing Africa excerpts published in AfricaFocus Bulletin
12 November 2018

Taxing Africa excerpts published in AfricaFocus Bulletin

Excerpts from chapter 5 of ICTD’s book Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform and Development were published in the AfricaFocus Bulletin, released…

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Taxing Africa discussed in Daily Nation blog
22 October 2018

Taxing Africa discussed in Daily Nation blog

ICTD’s new book “Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform and Development” was recently discussed in a Daily Nation blog by Tom Odhiambo…

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ICTD CEO cited in The Economist
17 August 2018

ICTD CEO cited in The Economist

Mick Moore, the ICTD’s CEO, was cited in a piece by The Economist about the extent of tax breaks across…

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