"The Tackling Tax and Saving Lives report says
half the countries in sub-Saharan Africa collect less than 17 per cent of their
gross domestic product in tax revenue, whereas in rich countries the average is
35 per cent. If all developing countries were to mobilise 20 per cent of GDP in
tax, 287,000 child deaths could be averted each year, and an additional 72
million people could have access to clean water. Often tax revenues provide far
more financing than overseas development aid, particularly in middle-income
countries. In sub-Saharan Africa only eight out of 34 countries receive
more aid than they generate in tax revenues."
Read the article
by Matt Wade in The Sydney Morning Herald.
