Dual Income Taxation: A Potentially Promising Approach to Tax Reform in Developing Countries

Richard Bird presented the paper "Dual Income Taxation: A Potentially Promising Approach to Tax Reform in Developing Countries" on Tuesday, November 11th from 3-4:30 in Seminar Room 749.

Professor Emeritus Richard Bird is visiting the International Studies Program as a Distinguished Professor of Economics from November 3-14, 2008. He is located in room 131 of the Andrew Young School.

Professor Bird has held faculty positions at the University of Toronto, Harvard University, Columbia University, Monash University (Australia), and the Erasmus University Rotterdam (Netherlands) and is currently Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. He has served as a senior economic advisor for the World Bank, IMF, and a large number of governments around the world. In addition, Prof. Bird has authored numerous articles and books on tax policy, tax administration and intergovernmental finance reform issues, including: Fiscal Decentralization in Developing Countries, (Cambridge University Press, 1998), with F. Vaillancourt, Decentralization of the Socialist State: Intergovernmental Finance in Transitional Economics with R. Ebel, and C. Wallich, (World Bank, 1995), Improving Tax Administration in Developing Countries, with M. Casanegra de Jantscher, (International Monetary Fund, 1992).