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Multinationals' Tax Dodging Impacts Basic Services In Africa

In developing countries, and the sub-Saharan region especially, the scale of unmet basic needs is enormous. It is estimated that 3 billion people in the developing world subsist on less than U.S.$2 a day per person.

Revenues from taxation are fundamental. It enables a government to redistribute wealth to alleviate poverty.

Taxes also provide education, healthcare, social security, pensions, efficient public transport, clean water and other public services taken for granted in developed economies, write Jia Liu and Olatunde Julius Otusanya for The Conversation.

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