Local Government Revenue Mobilisation in Anglophone Africa

Tax revenue mobilisation in Ethiopia

Local Government Asymmetry and the IGFR System in South Africa

This paper describes the historical processes that resulted in the considerable socioeconomic disparities that are found in South Afr ica. Owing to the spatial orientation of much of apartheid policy, these dispar ities have a distinctive geographic form, with signif icant socio-economic contrasts within rural and urban areas and bet ween urban and rural areas more broadly. It was inev itable t...

The Causal Relationship between Government Revenue and Expenditure in Jordan

The main purpose of the study is to examine the causal relationship between government revenues and expenditures of the Jordan government over the period from 1990 to 2011 using Granger causality and VECM tests methodology. Which provides channels of causation between government revenues (GR) and government expenditures (GE).The empirical results show that bidirectional causality running betwee...

Measuring changes in the illicit cigarette market using government revenue data: the example of South Africa

BACKGROUND The tobacco industry claims that illicit trade in cigarettes has increased sharply since the 1990s and that government has lost substantial tax revenue. OBJECTIVES (1) To determine whether cigarette excise tax revenue has been below budget in recent years, compared with previous decades. (2) To determine trends in the size of the illicit market since 1995. METHODS For (1), mean p...

Measuring changes in the illicit cigarette market using government revenue data: the example of South Africa

To cite: van Walbeek C. Tob Control Published Online First: [please include Day Month Year] doi:10.1136/tobaccocontrol2013-051178 ABSTRACT Background The tobacco industry claims that illicit trade in cigarettes has increased sharply since the 1990s and that government has lost substantial tax revenue. Objectives (1) To determine whether cigarette excise tax revenue has been below budget in rece...