Dr Giulia Mascagni
| Post: | Fellow (Institute of Development Studies) |
| Location: | IDS |
| Email: | G.Mascagni@sussex.ac.uk |
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Biography
My main area of work is taxation in lower-income countries. More broadly, I am interested in public finance, evaluation of public policy, and aid effectiveness. I am an economist by training, holding a PhD in Economics from the 天堂视频. I mostly work on African countries, with a particular focus on Ethiopia and Rwanda.听
I am currently working at IDS as Professorial Fellow and as Executive Director of the听nternational Centre for Tax ad Development (ICTD). At IDS I teach taxation and public finance at the postgraduate level and on professional short courses. I previously collaborated with UNECA, the World Bank, the Overseas Development Institute, and the European Commission.听
I am currently Research Affialiate at the Institute of Fiscal Studies (UK), Adjunct Professor at Johns Hopkins' School of Advanced International Studies (Italy), and a member of the Technical Advisory Committee of IMF's TADAT. I have field experience in Ethiopia, Mozambique and Rwanda, amongst others.听In Ethiopia I worked as Associate Economic Affaires Officer at the UN Economic Commission for Africa and I was Resident Researcher at the Ethiopian Development Research Institute in Addis Ababa. In Rwanda, I led a set of听large-scale field experiments听aiming to understand the determinants of tax compliance and I served as Research Advisor to the Rwanda Revenue Authority.
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Role
Research Fellow, Institute of Development Studies
Executive Director, International Centre for Tax and Development听
Qualifications
DPhil in Economics, 天堂视频, October 2008 - ongoing
MA in Development Economics, 天堂视频, October 2007 - September 2008
Msc in Economics and Management for Public Organizations, Università Bocconi, October 2004 - March 2007
Undergraduate Program in Economics and Management for Public Organizations, Università Bocconi, September 2001 - September 2004