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What Have We Learned About Taxation, Statebuilding and Accountability?

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What Have We Learned About Taxation, Statebuilding and Accountability?

This ICTD Summary Brief is the fourth in our six special research synthesis pieces, produced at the end of the ICTD’s first five-year funding period in Spring 2016.

This one looks at what we have learned about taxation, state-building and accountability.

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  • ICTD

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accountabilitysocial contractstatebuildingtax

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Wilson Prichard

Wilson Prichard

  • Associate Research Fellow, ICTD and Chair, LoGRI
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