Jamie Boex

Dr. Jamie Boex is a senior public finance expert with extensive experience in fiscal decentralization reforms and fiscal policy reforms in developing and transition countries around the world. Working with organizations such as the World Bank, UNDP, USAID, and numerous other bilateral development agencies, Dr. Boex has contributed to policy reforms in over fifteen developing and transition countries around the world, including Afghanistan, Armenia, Bangladesh, Cambodia, Republic of Georgia, Indonesia, Malawi, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Nigeria, Russia, Swaziland, Tanzania, Timor-Leste and Uganda.

Dr. Boex has authored and contributed to numerous books, book chapters, articles, and reports on intergovernmental finance (fiscal decentralization), public expenditure management, and poverty reduction. In addition to his academic research and expertise in the management and provision of technical assistance, Dr. Boex has considerable experience in the development and delivery of academic courses and professional training programs in the areas of fiscal decentralization and other areas of public finance.

As a scholar-practitioner, Dr. Boex does not only use situation analysis and comparative international analyses to assess fiscal conditions, but frequently applies a variety of quantitative analytical techniques in order to inform evidence-based policy advice and policy recommendations. At the same time, Dr. Boex continually seeks to place public finance and intergovernmental fiscal relations within the context of each country’s institutional (administrative) and political (governance) traditions.

Dr. Boex has a PhD in economics from the Andrew Young School of Policy Studies (AYSPS) at Georgia State University (1999). He is a member of the American Economic Association (AEA), the National Tax Association (NTA), the American Society for Public Administration (ASPA), and the Association for Budgeting and Financial Management (ABFM).

Areas of expertise: Fiscal decentralization; intergovernmental fiscal architecture; the design and implementation of intergovernmental transfer systems; intergovernmental fiscal flows; the political economy of intergovernmental finance; subnational budget transparency; public expenditure management; pro-poor public spending; public expenditure reviews (PERs); health sector finance; and anti-corruption.

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