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Janet Zhou

Category: Tax Justice and DRM

Navy title card reading Who Gets to Write the Tax Rules, with the subtitle Two negotiations, one generation of public finance. JZ Notes, Janet Zhou.
Who Gets to Write the Tax Rules: Two Negotiations That Will Shape African Public Finance

Who Gets to Write the Tax Rules: Two Negotiations That Will Shape African Public Finance

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Two negotiations now under way will shape African public finance for a generation. The UN tax convention is in line-by-line drafting and the Borrowers’ Platform is building a debtor caucus that has never existed. Both will be won or lost in clauses that read like housekeeping.

Turning Curses into Possibilities: Reflections from the Zimbabwe Alternative Mining Indaba 2025

Turning Curses into Possibilities: Reflections from the Zimbabwe Alternative Mining Indaba 2025

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Every September, the Zimbabwe Alternative Mining Indaba (ZAMI) brings together a powerful mix of voices: communities from mining areas, civil society organisations, academics, activists, government officials, and, increasingly, private sector players. This year, from the 17th to the 19th, I joined comrades and colleagues who,

How tax leakages and unsustainable debt have severely weathered and eroded the fiscal social contract in Africa.

How tax leakages and unsustainable debt have severely weathered and eroded the fiscal social contract in Africa.

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The Malignant Development Financing Cancer Africa is grappling with a malignant development financing cancer manifesting in bulging illicit financial flows and debt distress despite being replete with natural resource wealth. These challenges have been made more daunting by the effects of the scaffolded crises –