Stagnation of Domestic Revenue (McKinley and Kyrili)

Terry McKinley and Katerina Kyrili, Director of CDPR, document the miserably slow progress since the early 1990s in mobilising domestic revenue in low-income countries in much of Africa and Asia. He attributes this problem, to a significant extent, to systematically faulty policy advice and advocates a re-evaluation of the working assumptions underpinning what he calls the current reigning ‘tax consensus’. The paper was recommended by Marcos Mendes.