Max Gallien
@maxgallien.bsky.social
Political Economy, Development, Informality, Tax, North Africa. Author, "Smugglers and States" (Columbia 2024). Research Fellow
IDS and ICTD. 💚🐧
IDS and ICTD. 💚🐧
Wolfram! Thank you for reading the book, and for the kind words! I really need to make it back to Berlin sometime soon to catch up!
November 30, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Wolfram! Thank you for reading the book, and for the kind words! I really need to make it back to Berlin sometime soon to catch up!
Thank you for taking it on, and all the guidance along the way - which made it a much more readable book!
November 30, 2025 at 2:02 PM
Thank you for taking it on, and all the guidance along the way - which made it a much more readable book!
That's some of the graphs - more detail in the full policy brief below - and a lot more questions to be asked!
This is part of a larger project @ictdtax.bsky.social & LUMS project with Vanessa van den Boogaard and Umair Javed - looking forward to continuing this work!
www.ictd.ac/publication/...
This is part of a larger project @ictdtax.bsky.social & LUMS project with Vanessa van den Boogaard and Umair Javed - looking forward to continuing this work!
www.ictd.ac/publication/...
Public Support for Wealth and Progressive Taxes in Pakistan - ICTD
This brief explores public support for wealth taxation and the factors that shape those attitudes in Pakistan.
www.ictd.ac
June 23, 2025 at 10:11 AM
That's some of the graphs - more detail in the full policy brief below - and a lot more questions to be asked!
This is part of a larger project @ictdtax.bsky.social & LUMS project with Vanessa van den Boogaard and Umair Javed - looking forward to continuing this work!
www.ictd.ac/publication/...
This is part of a larger project @ictdtax.bsky.social & LUMS project with Vanessa van den Boogaard and Umair Javed - looking forward to continuing this work!
www.ictd.ac/publication/...
...perhaps the most important factor is trust in the state and the government - transparency and concerns about corruption are key drivers of support for new wealth taxes. There are key lessons in this: progressivity and transparency can both be a part of tax design and communication. (4/...)
June 23, 2025 at 10:08 AM
...perhaps the most important factor is trust in the state and the government - transparency and concerns about corruption are key drivers of support for new wealth taxes. There are key lessons in this: progressivity and transparency can both be a part of tax design and communication. (4/...)
Interestingly, if we dissect who supports new wealth taxes, people with a higher income are unexpectedly quite supportive! As are people who identify as supporters of the PMLN and the PPP. (3/...) However...
June 23, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Interestingly, if we dissect who supports new wealth taxes, people with a higher income are unexpectedly quite supportive! As are people who identify as supporters of the PMLN and the PPP. (3/...) However...
If we look at different tax proposals, we find that support is heterogeneous - with taxes that are structured more progressively being more popular. Notably, if we add more progressive structures to classical wealth taxes (like inheritance), they also become more popular! (2/...)
June 23, 2025 at 10:04 AM
If we look at different tax proposals, we find that support is heterogeneous - with taxes that are structured more progressively being more popular. Notably, if we add more progressive structures to classical wealth taxes (like inheritance), they also become more popular! (2/...)