Oil and aid revenue produce equal demands for accountability as taxes in Ghana and Uganda.

ABSTRACT: Received wisdom argues that citizens more readily demand accountability from government for taxes than for nontax revenue from oil or foreign aid, giving rise to an important mechanism underlying the "resource curse," which posits that nontax revenue causes citizen quiescence and hampers government accountability. However, in developing countries, obfuscation through value-added taxes and strong popular feelings of ownership over all revenues may minimize differences across revenue sources. Identical experiments on representative samples of Ghanaians and Ugandans, and similar experiments on members of parliament, probe the effects of different sources and delivery channels of government revenues on citizens' actions to monitor governments and members of parliament (MPs') beliefs about acco

SUBMITTER: de la Cuesta B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6731753 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature