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. 💚🐧
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/...)
Reposted by Max Gallien
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.
April 15, 2025 at 2:56 AM
Even accepting the premise that AI produces useful writing (which no one should), using AI in education is like using a forklift at the gym. The weights do not actually need to be moved from place to place. That is not the work. The work is what happens within you.