Mario Mansour

Mario Mansour is Division Chief in the IMF’s Fiscal Affairs Department (FAD), where he oversees tax policy work in Francophone Africa, Europe, Middle East, and Central Asia. Prior to this, he held several positions in FAD (2004-2018), including Deputy Division Chief of Tax Policy, and was Director of the IMF’s Middle East Regional Technical Assistance Center (2018-2021). He has 30 years of experience in public finance, has advised on taxation in over 40 countries, and has published on a wide range of tax issues. Before joining the IMF, he was a tax analyst at the Canadian Department of Finance (1992-2001), and lead economist for a Canadian consultancy on tax reform projects in the Middle East and the Eastern Caribbean (2001-2003).

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• Developing Countries Feel Squeeze From Lower Natural Resource Revenue, Falling Foreign Aid
  • Published: May 4, 2026
  • Authors: Mario Mansour, Fayçal Sawadogo
  • Summary: Fiscal pressures in developing countries make stronger domestic revenue systems more important than ever
• How Property Taxes Can Help Low-Income Countries to Develop
  • Published: November 11, 2024
  • Authors: Martin Grote, Mario Mansour, Jean-François Wen
  • Summary: Satellites, drones, and the right policies can help countries increase revenue by up to 10 times at the local level
• Countries Can Tap Tax Potential to Finance Development Goals
  • Published: September 19, 2023
  • Authors: Vitor Gaspar, Mario Mansour, Charles Vellutini
  • Summary: Emerging market and low-income economies have a significant untapped tax potential of 8 percent to 9 percent of GDP

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