This Policy Paper has analysed trends and features of domestic resource mobilisation in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper has established that many Sub-Saharan African countries are lagging behind their counterparts in Asia and the Pacific, Latin America and the Caribbean, and the OECD. The average tax-to-GDP ratio in SSA is 16.3%, Asia and Pacific is 19.1%, Latin America and the Caribbean is 21.9% and OECD is 33.5%. Only 12 SSA Countries have tax to GDP ratio of above 20%. The paper has further established that there are differences in domestic revenue mobilisation between SSA countries although many of the countries have the same socio-economic characteristics.
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