Domestic Revenue Mobilization at a Crossroads: Tax Policy Meets Data Analytics

Dario Tortarolo is an Economist on the Macroeconomics and Growth Team in the Development Research Group. His research focuses on Public Economics in developing countries and seeks to understand (i) how public policies affect workers, businesses, and consumers, (ii) the distributional impacts and the unintended effects due to design issues, and (iii) how governments can address tax avoidance and evasion, especially at the top of the income distribution. Prior to joining the bank, he was an Assistant Professor at the University of Nottingham and a postdoctoral fellow at the IFS. He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from UC Berkeley and a B.Sc. and M.Sc. in Economics from Universidad Nacional de La Plata. He received the National Tax Association’s Outstanding Doctoral Dissertation prize in 2020. 

Gabriela Inchauste is Practice Manager in the Global Unit of the Poverty and Equity Global Department at the World Bank. Previously she served in various positions as Lead Poverty Economist in the West and Central Africa, Latin American, and Eastern Europe and Central Asian regions. She has led technical work and policy dialogue on the distributional impact of fiscal policies, ex-ante analysis of the distributional impacts of climate change and climate action, and on methods and tools to decompose changes in poverty and inequality. She led regional analysis on poverty and inequality in Africa, global analysis on Fiscal Policy in developing countries, and the barriers to women’s labor force participation and agency. 

Deon Filmer is Director of the Development Research Group at the World Bank. He has previously served as Acting Research Manager in the Research Group, Co-Director of the World Development Report 2018: Learning to Realize Education’s Promise, and Lead Economist in the Human Development department of the Africa Region of the World Bank. He works on issues of human capital and skills, service delivery, and the impact of policies and programs to improve human development outcomes—with research spanning the areas of education, health, social protection, and poverty and inequality. He has published widely in refereed journals, including studies of the impact of demand-side programs on schooling and learning; the roles of poverty, gender, orphanhood, and disability in explaining education inequalities; and the determinants of effective service delivery.