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Poor revenue forecasting: A major challenge for sound fiscal policy in Angola
(Angola Brief vol. 4 no. 1, Report, 2014-02-01)Fiscal policy is the use of government revenue collection (taxation) and expenditure (spending) to monitor and influence the nation’s economy. A major challenge facing fiscal policy and implementation of the ongoing non-oil ... -
Tax Reform and State Building in a Globalized World
(Taxation and State Building in Developing Countries Chapter 10, Chapter, 2008-01-01)How far has the recent global wave of tax reform contributed to state building in poorer countries? This chapter concludes that there are a large number of good things to report, but worrying problems in the poorest and ... -
Mass Taxation and State-Society Relations in East Africa
(Taxation and State Building in Developing Countries Chapter 5, Chapter, 2008-01-01)Poll (‘head'''') tax has been the most common form of direct mass taxation in many sub-Saharan African countries since colonial times. Until very recently it was a dominant source of revenue for local governments. It has ... -
Organisational Performance Review of the Norwegian People's Aid
(Norad rapport: Gjennomgang 6/2012, Research report, 2012-08-01)The Norwegian People’s Aid (NPA) was established in 1939 as the trade unions’ voluntary health and solidarity organisation. NPA’s international work includes long-term development efforts and humanitarian ... -
Ways to Regain Afghan Trust
(Professional article, 2007-01-01)If humanitarian agencies are to regain the trust of the Afghans it remains of crucial importance that they continue to demonstrate their distance from the military forces. The military forces need to understand and respect ... -
A Contradictory Mission? NATO from Stabilization to Combat in Afghanistan
(International Peacekeeping vol. 15 no. 2 April, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2008-05-01)Between 2001 and 2007, the United States and NATO gradually abandoned the commitment to a light military footprint in Afghanistan, initially adopted to avoid making the same mistakes as the Soviet Union. A heavy footprint, ... -
What's trust got to do with it? Non-payment of service charges in local authorities in South Africa
(The Journal of Modern African Studies vol. 42 no. 4, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2004-01-01)A major financial problem in many municipalities in South Africa is the inadequate collection of service charges due to widespread non-payment. The prevailing view is that non-compliance is caused by poverty and the existence ... -
Reconstruction as Modernisation: The 'post-conflict' project in Afghanistan
(Third World Quarterly vol. 28 no. 7, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2007-09-01)This paper examines the post-war reconstruction programme in Afghanistan, arguing that it contains the seeds of radical social change. The paper analyses the tensions of the present reconstruction project in light of the ... -
Terre, normes de propriété et litiges à Kaboul
(Revue des mondes musulmans et de la Méditerranée vol. 133, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-01-01)Les conflits relatifs à la possession et à l’exploitation de la terre sont très courants en Afghanistan. Plusieurs facteurs y contribuent : à l’absence de cadastre et à la ... -
Fighting fiscal corruption: Lessons from the Tanzania Revenue Authority
(Public Administration and Development vol. 23 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2003-01-01)Over the last decade several African countries have undertaken comprehensive reforms of their tax administration to increase revenue and curb corruption. This paper examines recent experiences in the fight against corruption ... -
Taxation, coercion and donors. Local government tax enforcement in Tanzania
(The Journal of Modern African Studies vol. 39 no. 2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2001-01-01)This paper presents three propositions about tax collection by local authorities in Tanzania. First, revenue performance depends on the degree of coercion involved in tax enforcement. Reciprocity does not seem to be an ... -
Fiscal corruption: A vice or virtue?
(World Development vol. 31 no. 8, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2003-01-01)Recent literature on tax administration in poor countries suggests there are virtues of allowing fiscal corruption. By strengthening the bargaining power of corrupt tax officers, it is argued that tax evasion may be reduced ... -
Combating corruption: A transparency index for donors?
(Development Today vol. 9 no. 6, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 1999-01-01)For decades the international donor community has turned a blind eye to corruption in developing countries. This attitude appears to have changed. There is now a remarkable consensus among aid organisations on the importance ... -
'Fiscal corruption: a vice or virtue': a reply
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Access to Justice and Human Rights in Afghanistan
(Journal of Crime, Law and Social Change vol. 60, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-01-01)In anthropological and legal literature, the phenomenon termed ‘legal pluralism’ has been interpreted as a co-presence of legal orders which act in relation to their own ‘levels’ of referring ... -
Gli hazara dell'Afghanistan tra asservimento, guerra ed emancipazione
(LARES. Quadrimestrale di studi demoetnoantropologici vol. 2016/2, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-01-01)This article analyses the link between politics of enslavement, war and collective emancipation with particular reference to the Hazaras, an ethnic-religious minority of Afghanistan. The main objective of this paper is to ... -
Entre loi et coutumes. L'interconnexion normative dans les cours de justice de Kaboul
(Diogène vol. 239-240, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-01-01)Le système juridique afghan est formé de pratiques coutumiè-res, de principes de la shari‘a, de lois promulguées par l’État et denormes internationales. Cet arsenal a ... -
Corruption, Legal Modernisation and Judicial Practice in Afghanistan
(Asian Studies Review vol. 37(4), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2013-01-01)Afghanistan’s justice system is currently at a crucial and troubled stage of development that will determine its effectiveness. This article focuses on the phenomenon of corruption inside judicial institutions. By ... -
Between Law and Customs: Normative Interconnections in Kabul’s Tribunals
(Diogenes vol. Vol. 60(3-4), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015-01-01)The Afghan normative scenario is composed of customary practices, shari’a principles, laws promulgated by the state and international law. Studies on this arsenal tend to give special attention to the coexistence ... -
Law as an Anti-Value. Justice, Violence and Suffering in the Logic of Becoming
(Anthropology Today vol. Vol 30(3), Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-01-01)Anthropologists are chronologically only the latest to have adopted justice (and injustice) as an object of (critical) inquiry. Even among anthropologists, however, the radical critical cry that law is the instrument par ...