Economist Michael Carlos Best Leads Research on Jordan’s Taxation and Public Spending
Michael Carlos Best, assistant professor of Economics at Columbia University, was awarded the President’s Global Innovation Fund for the Jordanian Economic Policy Research Initiative, a project that will study economic policy in Jordan with a focus on taxation and public spending.
“The initiative would have two core missions,” says Best. “First, to perform frontier academic research on real policy questions facing the Jordanian government today. Evidence will then be used to make immediately usable policy recommendations to the government. Second, a teaching mission which both focuses on capacity building within the Jordanian government through workshops on evidence-based policy design and policy impact evaluation, and also bringing Columbia graduate students interested in economic policy in low and middle-income countries to Jordan to work with government officials on real-world policy problems.”
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