Vanessa van den Boogaard

Vanessa van den Boogaard

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Vanessa is a political scientist specializing in the politics of taxation and informal institutions, the political economy of development, and conflict and statebuilding. Her work on informal taxation includes a focus on taxation by non-state armed groups, exploring the dynamics and implications of different modalities of revenue generation by armed actors.

She is a Research Fellow at the International Centre for Tax and Development, where she co-leads the research programme on Informality and Taxation with Max Gallien. She is based at the Munk School of Global Affairs and Public Policy at the University of Toronto.

• Articles & reports

  Vanessa van den Boogaard and Fabrizio Santoro (Forthcoming 2022) Financing governance beyond the state: Informal revenue generation in south-central Somalia, African Affairs.

  Vanessa van den Boogaard and Fabrizio Santoro (2022) Co-financing community-driven development through informal taxation: Evidence from south-central Somalia, Governance.

  Tanya Bandula-Irwin, Max Gallien, Ashley Jackson, Vanessa van den Boogaard and Florian Weigand (2022) Beyond greed: Why armed groups tax, Studies in Conflict & Terrorism.

  Vanessa van den Boogaard, Wilson Prichard, Matthew Sterling Benson and Nikola Milicic (2018) Tax revenue mobilization in conflict-affected developing countries, Journal of International Development 30, 2: 345-64.