Tax Federalism 2.0: Give Regions Real Revenue Tools or Watch Fragmentation Grow
Ethiopia’s ambitious economic reforms – floating the birr, courting foreign investors, and modernizing the national tax code – risk stalling unless paired with a bolder overhaul of how money flows between Addis Ababa and the regions. The current model of fiscal federalism, rooted in the 1995 Constitution, hands the federal government the juiciest revenue...