Fahd Ali

Why does Pakistan has low tax capacity? One of Pakistan’s perennial problems is low tax capacity.

New post is up! If you worry about why Pakistan can't improve its tax collection then you should read this.

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Do institutions matter? Taxation and state formation in Pakistan Literature identifies strong centralised state bureaucracies as an important factor for strong fiscal capacity. This paper argues that a state's fiscal capacity can be weak despite having a strong ...

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My paper "Do institutions matter? Taxation and State Formation in Pakistan" has been published by Canadian Journal of Development Studies.

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Using state archives from Pakistan from its early years, I show that the state has been unable to arrive at political settlement with the society that would give it the necessary consents from its citizens for taxing them effectively.

#EconomicHistory #Institutions #Pakistan #Gramsci

It does so by developing a novel understanding of formal institutions by investigating Pakistan's inability to improve its tax collection despite several reform efforts.

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Literature identifies strong centralised state bureaucracies as an important factor for strong fiscal capacity. This paper argues that a state's fiscal capacity can be weak despite having a strong centralised state structure.

#EconomicHistory #Institutions #Pakistan #Gramsci

Do institutions matter? Taxation and state formation in Pakistan Literature identifies strong centralised state bureaucracies as an important factor for strong fiscal capacity. This paper argues that a state's fiscal capacity can be weak despite having a strong ...

🚨New publication alert🚨 #EconomicHistory #Institutions #Pakistan #Gramsci

My paper "Do institutions matter? Taxation and State Formation in Pakistan" has been published by Canadian Journal of Development Studies.

doi.org/10.1080/0225...

I am reading General Theory by Keynes again after like 15 years. And uffff....it's such a poorly written book. Felt the same when I first read it. You can learn more about Keynes's work from (post) Keynesians than from the man himself!

Me writing the paper in my head vs me in real life.

Bluesky is now banned in Pakistan. Establishment is so afraid of the people that it doesn't want to give them any platform to voice their concerns.