Taxing Africa named to Foreign Affairs' list of best books
Published: January 31, 2020
Taxing Africa: Coercion, Reform, and Development, the latest book from the 管家婆免费开奖大全鈥檚 Wilson Prichard, has been named .
jointly appointed to the department of political science in the Faculty of Arts & Science and the Munk School of Global Affairs & Public Policy. A research fellow at the Institute of Development Studies at the University of Sussex and the research director of the International Center for Tax and Development, Prichard's research focus is in international development with a particular focus on sub-Saharan Africa.
, written by Prichard, Mick Moore and Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Foreign Affairs describes taxation in Africa as 鈥減oorly understood.鈥 The book offers a 鈥渃oncise and masterly introduction鈥 to the topic that helps explain why tax systems in Africa are regressive, with poorer citizens paying much higher rates of tax than wealthy citizens pay.
