Balancing Purse and Peace: Tax Collection, Public Goods, and Protests
Balancing Purse and Peace: Tax Collection, Public Goods, and Protests  
Podcast: The Pie: An Economics Podcast
Published On: Tue Dec 10 2024
Description: Many low-income countries face a dilemma: keep taxes low and remain unable to build state capacity, or raise taxes and risk political unrest. In this episode of The Pie, Ben Krause, Executive Director of the Becker Friedman Institute for Economics, shares insights from an experiment in Haiti demonstrating how the provision of public goods can boost tax compliance.