This paper examines opportunities and constraints facing local revenue mobilisation in anglophone Africa, with an emphasis on urban settings. It discusses ...

This paper examines opportunities and constraints facing local revenue mobilization in Anglophone Africa with an emphasis on urban settings. Specific ...

The politics of revenue mobilisation: Explaining continuity in Namibian tax policies Lise Rakner Fo

The Politics of revenue mobilisation: explaining continuity in Namibia tax policies Lise Rakner NEP

The politics of revenue mobilisation. Explaining continuity in Namibian tax policies. Lise Rakner N

Institutionalising the politics of ethnicity : actors, power and mobilisation in southern Ethiopia

Local power structure and the mobilisation of vote: A study of the Bangladesh election 1979 Rounaq

Most governments in Africa, seeing the political mobilisation of ethnicity as a threat, have rejected the use of ethnic differences as an explicit basis ...

Taxation, aid and democracy are closely related in poor aid-dependent African countries. The way they tackle the issue of domestic revenue mobilisation ...

Cand. polit Lovise Aalen defended her PhD dissertation at the University of Oslo Friday 4 April. In her dissertation Aalen studies the national political framework of ethnic based federalism. She argues that ethnic political mobilisation must be understood as an outcome of both inter-ethnic and intra-ethnic relations.

Two fundamental problems have been figuring on the agenda of SADC since 1990: donor dependency and institutional structure. While not divorcing the broader ...

Taxation, aid and democracy are closely related in poor aid-dependent African countries. The way they tackle the issue of domestic revenue mobilisation ...

The purpose of this study is to systematise and analyse existing knowledge on taxation in fragile states. Efforts to support domestic revenue mobilisation ...

Fiscal decentralisation – the devolution of revenue mobilisation and spending powers to lower levels of government – has become a main theme ...

There is a growing interest among governments and development agencies to strengthen domestic revenue mobilisation in developing countries. It reflects ...

The project will prepare a report for the SADC Secretariat on the status of mobilisation of offcial development assistance for the achievements of the ...

What are the outcomes of ethnic self-rule, in combination with the power politics of an authoritarian regime?

Poor and frustrated youth in African cities usually figure in the spotlight as violent and frightening elements during riots or elections. The seminar and panel debate will discuss music as a form of political expression originating from the youth themselves, and populist attempts of political parties to mobilise the urban youth. Are they victims of manipulation by unscrupulous politicians or agents of political change?

Good Tax Governance (GTG) and more effective tax systems are central for sustainable development because they can: (i) mobilise the domestic tax base ...

The Devil Never Left: Indigeneity and Protest in Morales’ Bolivia John-Andrew McNeish Indigenous Po