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, a Research Fellow at the Institute of Development Studies, Chair of the Local Government Revenue Initiative (LoGRI) and former Executive Officer 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 sub-Saharan Africa.
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Publication Details

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