Taxation has been seen as the domain of charisma-free accountants, lawyers and number
crunchers–an unlikely place to encounter big societal questions about democracy, equity or …

Though property assessment uniformity has been repeatedly studied as a technical problem
related to the difficulty of the task, popular, and policy sentiment against the property tax is …

Low property tax collection rates are common in developing countries such as Malawi
compared with developed countries–where property taxes account for over double what is …

In recent decades, economists and historians have increasingly turned to Africa's colonial
past to explain contemporary differences in economic outcomes–especially fiscal stance …

Urban local governments of Zimbabwe are owed billions of dollars by citizens. This inability,
by the local authorities, to collect revenue from citizens has resulted in poor service delivery …

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The current COVID-19 pandemic and associated economic crisis have seen Africa fall into
recession for the first time in over 25 years. This has strained already limited local …

Abstract Problem: The city of Kigali (CoK), the capital city of the Republic of Rwanda, is fast
growing in demography and urbanization amid pronounced fiscal challenges. The city, its …

Africa, as a developing economy, is in dire need of an economic transformation, and taxes
are one of the most effective ways to propel that much needed economic growth (Collins …

Decentralization and State-Building in Rwanda: Essays on the Role of Decentralization in
Helping Rwanda Implement Its Vision fo Page 1 Dissertation Proposal Decentralization and …