Taxing for Development shows that tax is a profoundly political problem, associated with debates about the role of the state, the market, and business-state relationships.
Matt Barlow is a Lecturer in International Political Economy at the University of Glasgow and a Research Fellow at IBEI. Previously, he was a postdoctoral research fellow in the Department of International Development at King's College London. Before this he was an Associate Lecturer in the Department of Politics at the University of York where he was awarded his PhD. During this time, he also worked as a research associate in the Interdisciplinary Global Development Centre at the University of York. He has twice been a visiting researcher at the Universidad Torcuato di Tella in Buenos Aires, Argentina.