Raising domestic tax revenues is a priority for most sub-Saharan African countries. But the tax bases in most African countries are undermined by widespread ...

Can improved revenue collection and tax policies provide for more democratically accountable government? The chapter discusses the relationship between ...

This paper analyzes and explains foreign direct investment (FDI) in Mozambique. The country was one of the fastest growing countries in the world during ...

Globally, life expectancy increased while infant mortality reduced substantially between the 19th and late 20th century. Although there is relatively ...

African colonial history suggests that British colonial rule may have undermined state centralisation due to legacies of ethnic segregation and stronger ...

Angolan politics is usually explained with reference to the country’s long and devastating civil war. The postponed elections, the domination of ...

Since the early 1990s, many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have established semi-autonomous revenue authorities (ARAs), organisationally distinct from ...

The international community is devoting increasing attention to social security issues in developing countries as part of its preoccupation with poverty ...

A renewed interest in local government and decentralisation in developing countries has emerged in recent years, and many students now turn to this subject. ...

Many low income countries face a trilemma with respect to taxation: (1) There is an urgent and obvious need for more revenues to enable resource poor ...

In the aftermath of the COVID-19 pandemic the need in poor countries in Africa for more revenues is obvious and growing - also because aid agencies are ...

This desk study was commissioned by NORAD to review recent literature on socio-economic consequences of the HIV/AIDS pandemic in sub-Saharan Africa with ...

This concluding chapter compares the poverty reduction strategies of six sub-Saharan African countries (Botswana, Kenya, Namibia, Tanzania, Uganda and ...

There is economic growth in Africa. This is partly attributed to China's presence and economic investments in many African countries. What political challenges threatens democratization in Sub Saharan Africa and why?

Poll (‘head'''') tax has been the most common form of direct mass taxation in many sub-Saharan African countries since colonial times. Until very ...

Business associations and growth coalitions in Sub-Saharan Africa Lise Rakner, Deborah Bräutigam an

The international donor community has been trying to promote democratic systems of governance in developing countries. Is progress being made?

The background of the study is the very high prevalence of mortality and morbidity in Sub-Saharan countries due to abortions induced by unsafe methods. ...

The population in sub-Saharan Africa is the fastest growing and the youngest in the world, yet the politicians ruling them are typically among the oldest. This ...

Why has the electoral process in the newly democratised African states had such limited impacts? How can the continued one-party dominance on the continent ...