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Revenue Mobilisation in Sub‐Saharan Africa: Challenges from Globalisation I – Trade Reform
Abstract
This is the first of two articles evaluating the nature and extent of, and possible responses to, two of the central challenges that globalisation poses for revenue mobilisation in sub‐Saharan Africa: trade liberalisation, and corporate tax competition. Both articles use a new dataset with the features needed to address these issues meaningfully: a disentangling of tariff from commodity tax revenue, and a distinction between resource‐related and other revenues. This first article describes that dataset, and provides a broad picture of revenue developments in the region between 1980 and 2005. Countries’ experiences have varied, but the overall picture is of non‐resource revenues having been essentially stagnant. Within this, however, and with exceptions, reductions in trade tax revenue have been largely offset by increased revenue from domestic sources.
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- Authors
- Keen, M., & Mansour, M.
- Affiliations
- International Monetary Fund (US)
- Venue
- Development Policy Review
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2010-08-02
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 553-571
- ISSN
- 0950-6764 (ISSN-L)
- 1467-7679
- OpenAlex
- W2015002693
- Cited by
- 119
- References
- 0
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- FWCI
- 20.14
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Development Policy Review (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Economics and Econometrics › Economic and Fiscal Studies
- Social Sciences › Economics, Econometrics and Finance › General Economics, Econometrics and Finance › Natural Resources and Economic Development
- Social Sciences › Political Science and International Relations › Local Government Finance and Decentralization
- Keywords
- revenue mobilization, globalization, trade liberalization, trade policy reform, corporate tax competition, customs revenue, sub-Saharan Africa, tax revenue trends
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