Publications by CFS Researchers

Books and Edited Book Chapters

• Attiya Waris, Tax and Development (LawAfrica, 2013)
• Attiya Waris, Financing Africa (Langaa, 2019)

• Latif, L., “Negotiating Coexistence: Kenya’s Constitutional Framework as a Forum for Dialogue between Islamic Norms and Human Rights,” Journal of Law and Religion (2025).
• Latif, L., “Global Health Governance’s Colour Line: How Finance Has Shaped Global Health Disparities in African Countries,” Strathmore Law Journal (2025)
• Lyla Latif, Islamic Wealth Taxation and Financing Public Health: An Interdisciplinary Analysis of Human Rights, Islamic Law and the Constitution of Kenya (Ethics Press, 2023).
• Lyla Latif, (2025). Breaking the Cycle of Domination in Global Tax Governance: Africans Defying Asymmetries and Seizing Opportunities. In Mosquera, I et al (eds) Redefining Global Governance. Springer Nature. 
• Latif, L. (2023). Imperilled Welfare States of Eastern Africa: A Comparative Analysis of the Policy Legacies of Taxation Politics in Kenya and Uganda. In: Onyango, G. (eds) State Politics and Public Policy in Eastern Africa. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-13490-6_10
• Latif, L., “Checking in on Tax: The Evolution of Checkpoint Taxation in Afghanistan,” in P Shome (ed) New Range & Orthodox Concerns in International Taxation (ITRAF-OakBridge Publications, 2023).
• Latif, L., ‘Mobilising and Securing Private Financial Flows from Digital Business Platforms and Curbing Tech Enabled IFFs to Finance SDGs in Africa’ in G Onyango (ed) Public Policy and Technological Transformations in Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2023)
• Latif, L.A., ‘The Lure of the Welfare State following Decolonisation in Kenya’ in Gurminder Bhambra and Julia McClure (eds) Imperial Inequalities: The politics of economic governance across European empires (University of Manchester Press, 2022)
• Latif, L.A., ‘Financial Compensation for Business Related Human Rights Violations in the Mining Sector’ in Olawuyi, D and Oyeniyi A (eds) Business and Human Rights Law in Africa. (Edward Elgar, 2022).
• Latif, L.A., The Evolving ‘Thunder’: The Challenges Around Imposing the Digital Tax in Developing African Countries, International Journal of Digital Technology & Economy (Vol 4, Number 1, 2020)
• Latif, L.A., ‘Can You Reap What You Don’t Sow?’ Health Finance in Kenya’s Progress Towards Universal Health Coverage. Financing for Development, Vol 1(2) 2020, p. 41-67
• Latif, L.A., The Tax Collection Capacity of the Afghan State: An answer in light of rampant tax evasion practices. Kardan Journal of Law (Volume 1, Issue 1, p.144-169) 2019
• Latif, L.A., Centralized Revenue Redistribution as a Potential Cause of Internal Conflict in Kenya.  Modern Africa: Politics, History and Society, Volume 4, Issue 1, 2016

• Nimmo Elmi, The Colonial Debris in the Digitalisation of Tax in Kenya. In: Mugler et al (ed) Anthropology and Tax (Cambridge University Press, 2024)
• Nimmo Elmi, Digitalising Tax, The Kenyan Way: The Travel and Translations of iTax in Kenya (Linkoping, 2021)

• Radha Upadhyaya, 'Dubai in the Savanna', in E Jones The Political Economy of Bank Regulation in Developing Countries (OUP, 2020)