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| TIME | PLENARY ROOM | ROOM 2 | ROOM 3 | ROOM 4 |
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| 08:15-09:00 | Registration – Main lobby | |||
| 09:00-11:00 |
Plenary 1: Welcome and keynote Opening and chair: Finn Tarp H.E. Laura Torvinen, Ambassador of Finland to Mozambique H.E. Adriano Afonso Maleiane, Minister of Economy and Finance of Mozambique (TBC) Keynote: Thinking about tax administration Michael Keen |
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| 11:00-11:30 | Coffee – Cafeteria | |||
| 11:30-13:00 |
Parallel 1.1 SOUTHMOD tax-benefit microsimulation special session Chair: Pia Rattenhuber Jukka Pirttilä / Pia Rattenhuber Quantifying the impacts of expanding social protection on efficiency and equity: evidence from a behavioral microsimulation model for Ghana Gemma Wright / Vincent Leyaro Policy transparency in the public sector: the case of social benefits in Tanzania mainland Mauricio Cuesta Poverty and vulnerability to poverty in Ecuador: a microsimulation estimation Gemma Wright Exploring options for delivering and financing a universal child benefit in South Africa |
Parallel 1.2 State capacity Chair: Antonio Cruz
Roel Dom Does e-government improve government capacity? Evidence from tax compliance costs and public procurement competitiveness |
Parallel 1.3 Social Protection I Chair: Rachel Gisselquist Damian Clarke Growing together: the importance of a large early-life social inclusion program on neonatal health outcomes in Latin America Kelly Kilburn Short-term Impacts of an unconditional cash transfer program on child schooling: experimental evidence from Malawi Miguel Niño-Zarazúa Natural resources, electoral behaviour and social assistance in Latin America |
Parallel 1.4 Local public sector and effectiveness Chair: Sam Jones Min Hein Myanmar real estate holding tax: a modest proposal for municipal finance in Myanmar Maty Konte How do education resources respond to the quality of local governance? evidence from Africa Sam Jones Who benefits from public services? Decomposing inequalities in Mozambique |
| 13:00-14:30 | Lunch – Marquee | |||
| 14:30-15:30 |
Poster session – Main lobby (location TBC) See posters Chair: Kyle McNabb |
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| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee – Cafeteria | |||
| 16:00-17:30 |
Parallel 2.1 Employment and labour income Chair: Ricardo Santos Albrecht Bohne Learning dynamics in tax bunching at the kink: evidence from Ecuador Clemente Pignatti Do public employment services improve employment outcomes? Evidence from Colombia Dario Tortarolo The response of salaried workers to the personal income tax: evidence from a regression discontinuity design in Argentina |
Parallel 2.2 Political economy Chair: Jorge Matine Biniam Bedasso Remittances and taxation in developing countries Roberto Ricciuti How do political institutions affect fiscal capacity? Explaining taxation in developing economies |
Parallel 2.3 Social protection II Chair: Luca Pellerano Noemi Pace Making the right livelihood choice: how do cash transfers help? Ervin Prifti Risk-related effects of cash transfers on modern inputs demand Alma Santillan The electoral impact of a conditional cash transfer: the case of Mexico’s Progresa-Oportunidades programme |
Parallel 2.4 Local government and decentralization Chair: Manuel Araujo Pablo Evia Increased decentralization, basic services, and nutrition: evidence from Bolivia Tewodaj Mogues Decentralization without representation (or mobility): implications for rural public service delivery |
| 19:00-21:00 |
Dinner The dinner will take place at the VIP Grand Maputo Hotel (Avenida 25 de Setembro, nº 692), which is located 6 km from the conference venue. Transportation for presenters has been pre-arranged; please note that others will need to make their own arrangements. |
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Programme
Wednesday 5 July
Thursday 6 July
| TIME | PLENARY ROOM | ROOM 2 | ROOM 3 | ROOM 4 |
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| 09:00-10:30 |
Parallel 3.1 Using revenue authorities’ administrative data for research purposes – In collaboration with ICTD Chair: Giulia Mascagni Giulia Mascagni African revenue administrations and tax researchers Elizabeth Gavin / Jukka Pirttilä UNU-WIDER research programme on using administrative data: lessons learnt and the way forward Ronald Waiswa Using revenue administrative data for research: practical experiences and research in the Ugandan context |
Parallel 3.2 Labour market and household welfare impacts of cash transfer programmes Chair: Miguel Niño-Zarazúa Silvio Daidone A dose-response function approach for labour supply and cash transfers: the case of Zambia María Gabriela Palacio Institutionalising segregation: conditional cash transfers and employment choices Guido Neidhöfer The long-lasting effects of a conditional cash transfer on children’s human capital Carla Canelas Schooling and labour market impacts of Bolivia’s Bono Juancito Pinto |
Parallel 3.3 Nutritional and health outcomes Chair: Vincenzo Salvucci Temidayo Apata Can social assistance programmes stimulate fairness of access to Agricultural Inputs Acquisition and reduce poverty among small-scale farmers in Southwestern, Nigeria? Andrea Guariso Reducing child mortality in the last mile: a randomized social entrepreneurship intervention in Uganda Tara Kaul Household responses to food subsidies: evidence from India |
Parallel 3.4 Inequality and wellbeing Chair: Carlos Gradín Ira Neal Gang Inequality, good governance and endemic corruption Armand Mboutchouang Kountchou The impact of oil exploitation on wellbeing in Chad Carlos Gradín Occupational gender segregation in post-apartheid South Africa |
| 10:30-11:00 | Coffee – Cafeteria | |||
| 11:00-12:30 |
Parallel 4.1 Taxation: The data and research agenda Chair: Tony Addison Kyle McNabb Toward closer cohesion of international tax statistics: the ICTD-UNU-WIDER Government Revenue Dataset 2017 Tony Addison / Jörgen Levin Taxation and development |
Parallel 4.2 Commitment to equity (Distributional Impact of Fiscal Policies in Africa) – In collaboration with the World Bank Chair: Tomomi Tanaka Alejandro De La Fuente Impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty in Zambia Tomomi Tanaka Income tax policy, non-compliance, and its redistributive effects in Ghana Ryoko Sato The impacts of external funding for district governments on tax collection and public goods provision in Ghana Sandra Martinez The distributional impact of taxes and social spending in Senegal |
Parallel 4.3 Taxation of firms Chair: Horácio Simão Xiaoguan Chen Taxation like predation: the case in China Giulia Mascagni One size does not fit all: a field experiment on the drivers of tax compliance and delivery methods in Rwanda |
Parallel 4.4 Experimental approaches Chair: Faizal Carsane Karine Marazyan Income hiding and informal redistribution: a lab-in-the-field experiment in Senegal Karim Khan Moral hazard, monitoring and punishment: evidence from a field experiment Arne Wiig How do voters respond to information on self‐serving elite behaviour? Evidence from a randomized survey experiment in Tanzania |
| 12:30-14:00 | Lunch – Marquee | |||
| 14:00-15:30 |
Parallel 5.1 Multinationals Chair: Michael Keen Pamina Koenig The geography of NGO activism against multinational corporations Miroslav Palanský Estimating the scale of corporate profit shifting: tax revenue losses related to foreign direct investment Ludvig Wier Tax motivated transfer price manipulation in South Africa |
Parallel 5.2 Informality and taxation Chair: Jörgen Levin Pierre Nguimkeu An estimated model of informality and entrepreneurship Rudi Rocha de Castro Do lower taxes reduce informality? Evidence from Brazil Bassirou Sarr Value-added tax remittance responsibility, firm compliance, and production decisions |
Parallel 5.3 Social protection III Chair: Novella Maugeri Silvio Daidone Does ‘soft conditionality’ increase the impact of cash transfers on desired outcomes? Evidence from a randomized control trial in Lesotho Richard De Groot Overview of transfer project research in sub-Saharan Africa and highlights from ‘From Evidence to Action’ Caroline Tassot Can investments in social protection contribute to subjective wellbeing? A cross-country analysis |
Parallel 5.4 Transfers Chair: Gemma Wright Marina Dodlova The politics of social fund allocation: evidence from Kenya Abel Fumey Intergovernmental fiscal transfers and tactical political maneuverings: evidence from Ghana’s district assemblies common fund Anubhab Gupta Heterogeneous spillovers from SCTs: evidence from Lesotho |
| 15:30-16:00 | Coffee – Cafeteria | |||
| 16:00-17:30 |
Plenary 2: Keynote and closing Chair: Jukka Pirttilä Keynote: 'How to spend it': Financing Africa’s infrastructure gap John Page Final remarks Finn Tarp |
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Side event: Friday 7 July
Seminar: Tax and development: what can we learn from the Finnish experience?
The seminar is organized as part of the celebrations to mark the 100th anniversary of Finland's independence.
The seminar will be simultaneously translated to/from Portuguese.
More about the event and programme on the seminar page
More about the event and programme on the seminar page