ANALYSIS
A selection of some of my writing for media, policy and wider audiences.
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Do Good Fences Actually Make Good Neighbors? (Foreign Policy) - May 23, 2025
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Ghana’s e-levy: 3 lessons from the abolished mobile money tax (ICTD) – April 9, 2025
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Reasons to be Optimistic about Tax and the Informal Sector (ICTD) – March 5, 2025
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Tax programmes divide UK politics, but there’s one we can all agree on (IDS) - June 27, 2024
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Smuggling In Tunisia: Fact, Fiction And Future (Nawaat) – March 1, 2024
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New data on the e-levy in Ghana (The Conversation) – September 18, 2022
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The Challenges of Cannabis Taxation in Morocco (Medias24) – February 1, 2022
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The World Bank and IMF are using flawed logic (The Conversation) – November 7, 2021
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Would Moroccans accept a state zakat fund? (ICTD/Medias24) – October 25, 2021
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Cannabis Taxation – A New Revenue Source for Development? (ICTD) – June 3, 2021
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Taxing the Informal Economy is not a Silver Bullet (ICTD) – April 29, 2021
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Does Morocco's tax system really drive its informal economy? (L’Economiste) – April 1, 2021
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Divided they fall: frontiers, borderlands and stability in North Africa (ISS) – March 3, 2021
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Informal Work and Auto-Entrepreneurship Laws in the Maghreb (FES) – January 11, 2021
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Women don’t value their own work (Indian Development Review) – December 17, 2020
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Licit Economy Smuggling in the Maghreb and Sahel (Podcast) – July 7, 2020
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De-linking Tobacco Taxation and Illicit Trade in Africa (ICTD) – May 22, 2020
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How the Coronavirus threatens North Africa's informal workers (Middle East Eye) – April 15, 2020
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To fight Covid-19, only the formal economy is getting tax breaks (ICTD) – April 8, 2020
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Transnational Organized Crime and Political Actors in the Maghreb and Sahel (KAS) – January 28, 2019