Prof. Honest Prosper Ngowi (1967-2022)
It is with shock and great sadness that we received the message that Professor Honest Prosper Ngowi was killed in a road accident in Tanzania 28 March, 2022. Prof. Ngowi was Associate Professor of Economics at Mzumbe University, and Principal of Mzumbe University Dar Es Salaam Campus College. He held a Master’s degree in economics […]
Thorstein Veblen: More relevant than ever
More than a century has passed since the publication of Veblen’s most well-known book, The Theory of the Leisure Class: An Economic Study of Institutions. The book was published in 1899, near the end of the Gilded Age. In the United States, it was a time of almost unprecedented growth in inequality of income and wealth. Because […]
Marketing Sovereign Promises: Monopoly Brokerage and the Growth of the English State
Gary W. Cox (2016). Cambridge University Press. The reader may wonder why we have chosen to highlight a book about England’s rise between 1689 and 1815 from a minor regional power to the most powerful global power. The reason is that we believe that current debates about taxation and state-building in Africa and elsewhere in the Global […]
Taxation and tax reform in Africa
Lessons from and for Tanzania Tax is central to countries’ development. On 2 April 2019, experts, academics and civil society met in Dar es Salaam to discuss key tax lessons from and for Tanzania. The seminar was organized by the Norwegian Embassy. Ambassador Elisabeth Jacobsen gave the welcome address and put the issue of domestic […]
Africa, Tax and the Digital Economy
Our everyday lives are becoming ever more digitalised, and so is our economy. Multinational tech companies have become massive entities present all over the globe. Many countries have started to ask whether the tech giants are paying their fair share of taxes. Some countries, like France, have tried to introduce national legislation to tax companies […]
