Publications by CFS Researchers

CFS Blogs

Tax policy is political, contested, and consequential. Our CFS blog is where those arguments are made in public — by scholars, practitioners, researchers, students and policy strategists writing on international tax cooperation, sovereign debt, digital taxation, and the political economy of public finance across Africa and beyond.

The CFS Blog can be accessed here:  https://cfsuonbi.wordpress.com/

Books and Edited Book Chapters

• Lyla Latif, Governing Public Money: Law, Policies, Political Economy (Tale House Publishers, 2026).
• Attiya Waris, Tax and Development (LawAfrica, 2013)
• Attiya Waris, Financing Africa (Langaa, 2019)
• 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).
• 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)