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Giulia Mascagni
Giulia Mascagni's main area of work is taxation, but she also has research interest in public finance, evaluation of public policy, and aid effectiveness. She is an economist by training, holding a PhD in Economics from the University of Sussex. Her main geographical interest lies in African countries, with a particular focus on Ethiopia.
Giulia is currently working at IDS as Research Fellow and as Research Director of the International Centre for Taxation and Development (ICTD). At IDS she teaches economics, taxation and public finance at the postgraduate level and on professional short courses. Previously she worked as Associate Tutor at the University of Sussex, as an independent consultant for ITAD, the World Bank, the Overseas Development Institute, and as Adviser and Trainee at the European Commission.
Giulia has field experience in Ethiopia, Mozambique and Rwanda, amongst others. In Ethiopia she worked as Associate Economic Affaires Officer at the UN Economic Commission for Africa and she was Resident Researcher at the Ethiopian Development Research Institute in Addis Ababa.
In Rwanda, Giulia led a set of large-scale field experiments aiming to understand the determinants of tax compliance.
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Should Governments Tax Digital Financial Services? A Research Agenda to Understand Sector-specific Taxes on DFS
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The Tax Side of the Pandemic: Compliance Shifts and Funding for Recovery in Rwanda
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The VAT in Practice: Equity, Enforcement and Complexity - Working Paper
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The VAT in Practice: Equity Enforcement and Complexity
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The Economic Impact of the Pandemic in Rwanda: An Analysis of Firm-level VAT Data
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Using Administrative Data to Assess the Impact of the Pandemic in Low-income Countries: An Application with VAT Data in Rwanda
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Active Ghosts: Nil-filing in Rwanda
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Are There Any Reliable Data on Wages in Low-Income Countries? Observations and Lessons from Ethiopia
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Can ICTs Increase Tax? Experimental Evidence from Ethiopia
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