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Effect of Exchange Rate Volatility on Tax Revenue Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa

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  • Isaac K. Ofori

    (University of Insubria, Varese, Italy)

  • Camara K. Obeng

    (University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana)

  • Peter Y. Mwinlaaru

    (University of Cape Coast, Cape Coast, Ghana)

Abstract

Efforts to spur growth in sub-Sahara Africa have been intensified amid structural and institutional constraints. Tax revenue, the chief source of funding for developmental purposes in SSA remains low and unstable. In fact, the SSA sub-region finds it difficult generating tax revenue up to 20 per cent of GDP. One factor that has not caught the attention of policymakers in terms of its impact on tax revenue performance is exchange rate volatility. Using macrodata spanning 1984 to 2017 for 21 countries, we provide empirical evidence from a panel autoregressive distributed lag technique to show that exchange rate volatility is directly harmful to tax revenue performance, and indirectly through trade openness.

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  • Isaac K. Ofori & Camara K. Obeng & Peter Y. Mwinlaaru, 2021. "Effect of Exchange Rate Volatility on Tax Revenue Performance in Sub-Saharan Africa," Working Papers 21/031, European Xtramile Centre of African Studies (EXCAS).
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    Keywords

    Cointegration; Exchange Rate Volatility; GARCH; Sub-Sahara Africa; Tax Revenue;
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    • E5 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - Monetary Policy, Central Banking, and the Supply of Money and Credit
    • H2 - Public Economics - - Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue
    • H7 - Public Economics - - State and Local Government; Intergovernmental Relations
    • F6 - International Economics - - Economic Impacts of Globalization
    • O4 - Economic Development, Innovation, Technological Change, and Growth - - Economic Growth and Aggregate Productivity
    • Q55 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environmental Economics: Technological Innovation

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