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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

1 month ago in

Accountability

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.

From Mobilising to Making: Minerals, Work and Africa’s Triple Burden

1 month ago in

Accountability

Domestic resource mobilisation captures a larger share of value that already exists. Resource creation builds what an economy cannot yet make. Africa’s minerals are the test case, and the jobs are the measure.

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

3 years ago in

Debt Justice

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 –

African Civil Society Must Advocate for the UN Tax Convention

4 years ago in

Civil Society

Given the increased dependence of many African countries on mineral wealth driven by the spiraling demand for critical minerals, a cure for the cancerous corporate tax dodging is urgently required. The adoption of a resolution by the UN calling on the UNGA to begin negotiations

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