Taxing Property in a Neo-Developmental State: The Politics of Urban Land Value Capture in Rwanda and Ethiopia
dc.contributor.author | Goodfellow, Tom | |
dc.coverage.spatial | Rwanda | en |
dc.coverage.spatial | Ethiopia | en |
dc.date.accessioned | 2018-04-27T15:07:11Z | |
dc.date.available | 2018-04-27T15:07:11Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2017-06-15 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Goodfellow, T., Taxing Property in a Neo-Developmental State: The Politics of Urban Land Value Capture in Rwanda and Ethiopia, African Affairs, Volume 116, Issue 465, 1 October 2017, Pages 549–572, doi:10.1093/afraf/adx020 | en |
dc.identifier.issn | 1468-2621 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://opendocs.ids.ac.uk/opendocs/handle/20.500.12413/13661 | |
dc.description.abstract | Of the African states experiencing sustained growth and poverty reduction in recent decades, Rwanda and Ethiopia stand out due to the scope of their development visions and relatively effective state-driven transformation, leading them to be compared to the East Asian ‘developmental states’. This article argues that these two states are better conceived as ‘neo-developmental’ due to important differences in the international and national constraints they face compared with the East Asian ‘tigers’. One effect of these differences is the difficulty of attracting investment into manufacturing industry, and the consequent concentration of capital in high-end urban real estate. This underscores the need for effective land value capture and property taxation, which featured strongly in the East Asian cases. Currently, however, both Rwanda and Ethiopia lack effective mechanisms for capturing the value of urban property in a way that is sustainable, redistributive and developmental. The article explores the politics of efforts to introduce property tax in both cases. It argues that property taxation has been obstructed by conflicting imperatives on land reform and tax reform, alongside resistance from vested interests created by the rapid generation of real estate-based wealth in the absence of other sufficiently lucrative investment options. | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Department for International Development | en |
dc.description.sponsorship | Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Oxford University Press | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | African Affairs;Vol 116 | |
dc.rights | © The Author 2017. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Royal African Society. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ | en |
dc.subject | Governance | en |
dc.title | Taxing Property in a Neo-Developmental State: The Politics of Urban Land Value Capture in Rwanda and Ethiopia | en |
dc.type | Article | en |
dc.rights.holder | Oxford University Press | en |
dc.identifier.externaluri | https://academic.oup.com/afraf/article/116/465/549/3868619 | en |
dc.identifier.team | Governance | en |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1093/afraf/adx020 | |
rioxxterms.version | VoR | en |
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