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Taxing Africa
Coercion, Reform and Development
Author(s)
Moore, Mick
Prichard, Wilson
Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge
Language
EnglishAbstract
Taxation has been seen as the domain of charisma-free accountants, lawyers and number crunchers – an unlikely place to encounter big societal questions about democracy, equity or good governance. Yet it is exactly these issues that pervade conversations about taxation among policymakers, tax collectors, civil society activists, journalists and foreign aid donors in Africa today. Tax has become viewed as central to African development. Written by leading international experts, Taxing Africa offers a cutting-edge analysis on all aspects of the continent’s tax regime, displaying the crucial role such arrangements have on attempts to create social justice and push economic advancement. From tax evasion by multinational corporations and African elites to how ordinary people navigate complex webs of ‘informal’ local taxation, the book examines the potential for reform, and how space might be created for enabling locally-led strategies. The eBook editions of this book are available open access under a CC BY-NC 3.0 licence on bloomsburycollections.com.
Keywords
Adair Turner; Africa:Why Economists Get It Wrong; african arguments; Andrew Brooks; Between Debt and the Devil; Can Democracy Survive Global Capitalism?; corruption; Doughnut Economics; Ebenezer Obadare; Ebola; extraction industry; good governance; international development; Kate Raworth; Mariana Mazzucato; Morten Jerven; Pablo Yanguas; Paul Richards; Pentecostal Republic; policy reform; Robert Kuttner; social justice; tax evasion; taxation; The End of Development; The Looting Machine; The Value of Everything; Tom Burgis; Why We Lie About AidDOI
10.5040/9781350222861ISBN
9781783604562, 9781783604579, 9781783604548, 9781783604531, 9781783604555Publisher
Bloomsbury AcademicPublisher website
https://www.bloomsbury.com/academic/Publication date and place
London, 2018Imprint
Zed BooksSeries
African Arguments,Classification
Development economics and emerging economies
Development studies
Public finance and taxation