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S1 Ep61: Incentivising Africa's businesses to pay taxes
S1 Ep61: Incentivising Africa's businesses to pay taxes
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Length:
17 minutes
Released:
Oct 13, 2021
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Podcast episode
Description
Low-income countries struggle to collect tax, hurting economic stability, raising debt levels, cutting growth, and gutting basic services. Abebe Shimeles of African Economic Research Consortium tells Tim Phillips about a successful experiment in Ethiopia that also demonstrates the problem of creating sustainable policies to increase tax revenues.
Released:
Oct 13, 2021
Format:
Podcast episode
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