"Inequality in Public Good Provision and Attitude Towards Taxation: Sub-national Evidence from Africa"

The Research Facility on Inequalities, a partnership between the European Commission (DevCo) and AFD, has launched its series of weekly webinars. After three years of research aiming to understand and address inequalities in developing and emerging countries, it is now time to share some of the results.

Join us for the fourth session of the EU-AFD Research Facility on Inequalities’ webinars to be held on Monday, June 15th at 5.00 pm CEST, dedicated to the project The role of taxation in the fight against inequalities (Côte d’Ivoire, Mali, Senegal).

Marin Ferry, Senior Lecturer at Gustave Eiffel University / Associate Researcher IRD-DIAL, will present the paper “Inequality in Public Good Provision and Attitude Towards Taxation: Sub-national Evidence from Africa”.

The Third International Conference on Financing for Development (2015) highlighted how important mobilizing domestic resources in developing countries will be to the financing of the sustainable development goals (SDGs). But widespread tax evasion makes the mobilization of domestic revenue challenging for most African countries. Although these countries have witnessed an increase of their tax-to-GDP ratio over the past decade, the average level of taxation remains very low at around 16 percent of gross domestic product in 2016. Tax compliance is recognized as crucial in government’s effort to collect taxes, and might be a significant lever for domestic resource mobilization in developing countries. Tax compliance is shaped by many factors relating to various economic, sociological and political features, which overall capture the attitude of individuals towards taxation. In this paper, we focus on the way inequality in local public good provision affects individuals’ attitude towards taxation in 30 Sub-Saharan African countries. 

You can also find the schedule of upcoming webinars on the Research Facility on Inequalities’ website in the “Events” section.

For those of you who were not able to join us for the previous sessions, you will also find the replays on our webpage.