Mick Moore (political economist)

Mick Moore

Mick Moore
Residence Brighton, UK
Nationality British
Institutions Institute of Development Studies, International Centre for Tax and Development
Main interests
Governance, Public policy, State-building, Economic inequality, Tax reform

Mick Moore is a political economist and Professorial Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies.[1]

Overview

Moore has conducted field research in Asia and Africa, particularly Sri Lanka, India, and Taiwan, and has taught at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.[2] He was previously the Director of the Centre for the Future State, and is a member of the OECD Task Force on Tax and Development.[3][4][5] He is also the founding CEO of the International Centre for Tax and Development.[6] His main research interests are the domestic and international dimensions of good and bad governance in developing countries, particularly those relating to taxation. He focuses on the process by which widening the tax base in low-income countries can help foster a social contract between citizens and the government through associated demands for public services.[7][8] In contrast to receiving revenue from foreign aid or natural resources, governments who rely on taxes have to bargain with their citizens, and have incentives to promote their prosperity, thereby enhancing good governance.[9] As an expert on these issues, he has been called several times to speak as a witness for the UK Parliament International Development Committee.[10][11][12][13]

Scholarly Work

Mick Moore has published extensively on the issue of governance in the developing world, and his work has been widely cited, demonstrated by his h-index of 44 on Google Scholar.[14]

Selected Publications

References

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