Taxes are not just about money and not just of interest to economists. Using as a starting point recent flashpoints such as the E-Levy controversy in Ghana and tax protests in Kenya and other African countries, the panel showed the connection between taxation and wider political and social issues. This interactive panel discussed the relationship between taxes and trust in the state, elections and public mobilisation, informality, and gendered social relations.

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Congratulations!🥳 to Dr. Emmanuel Kumi, a Senior Research Fellow at CSPS, who co-authored of the winning proposal for the RGK-ARNOVA President's Award. 

Dr. Emmanuel Kumi is a Senior Research Fellow at the Centre for Social Policy Studies, University of Ghana. His research interests focus on civil society organisations, development finance, African philanthropy, and politics of development. He holds a PhD in International Development from the University of Bath, UK.

The article on "Post-COVID Economic Crisis, citizen-state Relations, and the Electronic Transactions Levy (E-levy) Controversy in Ghana", by Emmanuel Kumi from the Centre for Social Policy Studies (CSPS), University of Ghana and Michael Kodom and Kofi Takyi Asante from the Institute of Statistical Social and Economic Research, University of Ghana is available online.

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