With a group of colleagues at the World Bank, the Institute for Fiscal Studies, ODI and the Norwegian University of Life Sciences, I co-organize an annual conference series on topics in taxation with relevance for low and middle-income countries. The next conference on the Political Economy of Public Finances in LMICs will take place in September 2023. We are delighted to welcome Rohini Pande, Henry Heinz II Professor of Economics at Yale University, as keynote speaker. The call for papers will be published soon.

Previous conferences have covered the following themes:

• Global Tax Equity, September 22-23, 2022, Washington DC.
• New Tax Instruments, September 30 - October 1, 2021, on zoom.
• Taxing Personal Income and Wealth, September 24-25, 2020, on zoom. 
• The Value Added of Value-Added Taxes, conference organized jointly with the University of Michigan and Columbia University, May 9-10, 2019, Washington DC.​