Obstacles and appeal of environmental taxation: Insights from sub-Saharan Africa.

ABSTRACT: Increasing the slow pace of adoption of environmental taxes across low-income countries has become a significant priority among international financial institutions, multilateral development banks, and international donors. Yet little is known about the practical institutional, administrative, and political obstacles that have led to their slow implementation and how they can be made more appealing, especially across sub-Saharan Africa. Based on a review of the literature and 16 in-depth interviews with ministries of finance, revenue authorities, and other government representatives across six African countries, this paper provides exploratory evidence of these stakeholders' view about environmental taxes deployment in their countries' context. By increasing the visibility of these policym

SUBMITTER: Occhiali G 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11385670 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature