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Blog Post
January 22, 2020
While sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries have made some progress in collecting more taxes domestically in the last 20 years, international tax issues remain a significant concern for these and other developing countries, reflecting aggressive tax planning by multinational enterprises (MNEs) and the...
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...