Taxation, Property Rights and the Social Contract in Lagos

ICTD Working Paper 73

Major taxation reforms over the past decade have been interpreted as facilitating the transformation of Lagos: once widely seen as a city in permanent crisis, it is now seen by some observers as a beacon of megacity development. Most academic attention has focused on personal income...

Tom Goodfellow

Olly Owen

Taxation, Property Rights and the Social Contract in Lagos

ICTD Research in Brief 16

This ICTD Research in Brief is a two-page summary of ICTD Working Paper 73 by Tom Goodfellow and Olly Owen. This series is aimed at policy makers, tax administrators, fellow researchers and anyone else who is big on interest and short on time.

Olly Owen

Tom Goodfellow

Taxing the Urban Boom: Property Taxation and Land Leasing in Kigali and Addis Ababa

Much contemporary economic growth in Africa is driven by urban service sectors including construction and real estate. This manifests in rapidly transforming landscapes and the proliferation of valuable property in the continent’s booming large cities, often accompanied by growing...