Dr Savoia is a Reader in development economics at the University of Manchester's Global Development Institute. His research has looked at the determinants of governance and institutional performance and how they impinge on development outcomes and policies.
As a Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, Dr Savoia is currently engaged in the UNU-WIDER project Fiscal states – the origins and developmental implications.
He has worked at the University of Exeter, the University of Reading, the Università di Salerno, and the University of Bath.
There has been a revival of interest in the state’s role in economic development. Recent research argues that the most successful economies are those where effective states provide crucial public goods and services. The historical emergence of...
The post-COVID-19 economic recovery and Russia’s war with Ukraine have caused some natural resource prices to reach new highs. Although forecasting...
Part of Journal Special Issue Fiscal state capacity
Part of Journal Special Issue Fiscal state capacity
Tax revenues and political institutions placing constraints on the executive power may reinforce each other over time and this may also bring a shift...
This special issue presents new research on the state and its links to economic and social development. The special issue focuses on the processes of institutional transformation of the state, looking at how fiscal states arise in the developing...
Modern states are complex organizations which perform a broad range of functions. They have an important role in economic and human development. The...
We argue that tax revenues and political institutions placing constraints on the executive power may reinforce each other over time and so co-evolve in the long run. This may also bring a shift in the composition of revenues, from taxes levied on a...
This article reviews the recent literature on the developmental effects of resource abundance, assessing likely effects and channels with respect to key development outcomes. To date, this area has received less analysis, although it is relevant to...
Although increasingly challenged, we often hear that being resource rich can adversely affect growth prospects. Here we concentrate instead on a...
This paper reviews the recent literature on the developmental effects of resource abundance, assessing likely effects and channels with respect to income inequality, poverty, education, and health. To date, this area has received less analysis...
States’ fiscal capacity plays a pivotal role in developing economies, but it is less clear what its determinants are or what explains cross-country differences. We focus on the impact of natural resources. Standard arguments suggest that natural...
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