{"id":235496,"date":"2026-06-06T05:16:05","date_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:16:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-tax-data-can-be-mined-to-shape-better-policies-south-africa-uganda-and-zambia-show-how\/"},"modified":"2026-06-06T05:16:05","modified_gmt":"2026-06-06T03:16:05","slug":"africa-tax-data-can-be-mined-to-shape-better-policies-south-africa-uganda-and-zambia-show-how","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/southern-africa\/zambia\/africa-tax-data-can-be-mined-to-shape-better-policies-south-africa-uganda-and-zambia-show-how\/","title":{"rendered":"Africa: Tax Data Can Be Mined to Shape Better Policies. South Africa, Uganda and Zambia Show How"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"43\">Bilateral aid to Africa fell by <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.one.org\/press\/latest-oecd-dac-oda-data\/\" rel=\"noopener\">nearly a quarter in 2025<\/a>, the largest annual decline in the history of official development assistance. Meanwhile, sovereign debt interest payments now consume on average <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/africarenewal.un.org\/en\/magazine\/new-un-report-africas-economy-improve-2025-despite-global-stagnation\" rel=\"noopener\">27% of government revenues<\/a> across the continent, up from 19% in 2019.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">The pressure to fund development from within has never been greater. But meeting it requires African governments to understand their own economies with precision: which tax policies work, which incentives serve their purpose, how&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202606040003.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 Southern Africa <a title=\"Zambia\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/southern-africa\/zambia\/\">Zambia<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bilateral aid to Africa fell by nearly a quarter in 2025, the largest annual decline in the history of official development assistance. Meanwhile, sovereign debt interest payments now consume on average 27% of government revenues across the continent, up from 19% in 2019. The pressure to fund development from within has never been greater. But [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":235497,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[825],"tags":[258,256,9880,20843,257,7694,14777,11004,5069,254,8352,4707,4709,881],"class_list":["post-235496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-zambia","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-data","tag-mined","tag-news","tag-policies","tag-shape","tag-show","tag-south","tag-south-africa-today","tag-tax","tag-uganda","tag-zambia","tag-zambia-news"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=235496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/235496\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/235497"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=235496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=235496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=235496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}