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POLICY PAPERS
December 11, 2019
This case study assesses whether Zambia’s tax and fiscal policies have been impeded by political and technical constraints. Tax policy is a deliberate—yet intricate—process requiring not just well-measured choices, but also stability. Zambia has undertaken several tax reforms that ...
Blog Post
August 20, 2019
The establishment of universal health coverage is one of the key pillars of progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), particularly SDG3. What impact could taxing tobacco, alcohol and sugary beverages have on reducing the burden of noncommunicable diseases as we strive to achieve...
Blog Post
April 30, 2019
At the Center for Global Development, we recently initiated a project to develop more effective and equitable strategies for domestic resource mobilization in low-income countries in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). The impetus for the project is the Addis Ababa Action Agenda for financing d...
Blog Post
March 01, 2019
Matti Kohonen of Christian Aid holds out the enticing prospect that African countries could collect an additional 1.5 percent of gross domestic product in tax if only big multinationals would stop dodging. The problem is that this estimate is (still) based on wishful thinking. Multinationa...