Policy Brief

What Have We Learned About Taxation, Statebuilding and Accountability?

ICTD Summary Brief 4

This ICTD Summary Brief is the fourth in our six special research synthesis pieces, produced at the end of the ICTD’s first five-year funding period in Spring 2016.

This one looks at what we have learned about taxation, state-building and accountability.

Authors

Wilson Prichard

Wilson Prichard is an Associate Professor at the University of Toronto, an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Chair of the Local Government Revenue Initiative (LoGRI) and former Executive Director of the International Centre for Tax and Development (2020-2024). His research focuses on the relationship between taxation and citizen demands for improved governance in Africa.
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Publication Details

Publisher: ICTD
Date: May 2016
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Keywords: accountability, social contract, statebuilding, tax