Beneficial ownership transparency is gaining ground in Africa. At the start of 2023, 23 of 54 African countries have laws and regulations requiring the real people - the beneficial owners - behind legal vehicles to disclose themselves to a government authority. More than half of the continent...

The mining sector has become a focal point for the Malawian government, cited in the Malawi Growth and Development Strategy II 2012-2016 as a priority sector, accompanied by growth in contributions to GDP over the last decade. Harnessing the country’s resources can spur on national...

A study of the harmonisation of national mining policies conducted by the United Nations Economic Council for Africa (UNECA) and Southern African Development Community (SADC) in 2009 concluded that “As large-scale mining activities increase, Malawi should benefit from a SADC-wide approach to...

Kayelekera uranium mine is the biggest mining project in Malawi’s history and began production in 2009. In 2013, revenues from the mine contributed 2.6% to Gross Domestic Product. Yet production at Kayelekera was suspended as a result of the crash in uranium prices following the Fukushima...

Recent research suggests that profit based tax incentives are costly, tend to fail in attracting additional desirable foreign direct investment, and are problematic especially when they are temporary (e.g. tax holidays), geographically confined (e.g. economic zones) and when they provide full...

African nations must adopt policies to counter corporate tax avoidance, especially in a digital economy. The Corporate Tax Haven Index of 2019, developed by the Tax Justice Network, is the first systematic, unpoliticised and verifiable measure of how jurisdictions facilitate abusive tax activity...