Appendix
The countries included in the study are Benin, Botswana, Burkina Faso, Burundi, Cabo Verde, Cameroon, Central African Republic, Chad, Comoros, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Republic of the Congo, Côte d’Ivoire, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Gabon, The Gambia, Ghana, Guinea, Guinea-Bissau, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mali, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Niger, Nigeria, Rwanda, Sao Tome and Principe, Senegal, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Togo, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.
Table 6.A.1 reports the definition and sources of data used.
Table 6.A.1 Data sources and definitions
| Variables | Definition | Sources |
|---|---|---|
| Total non-resource tax (% GDP) | Total tax revenues excluding resource rent | Mansour (Reference Mansour2015) |
| Total natural resource rent (% GDP) | Sum of oil rents, natural gas rents, coal rents (hard and soft), mineral rents, and forest rents over GDP | World Bank World Development Indicators (WDI), https://databank.worldbank.org/source/world-development-indicators |
| GDP per capita (constant 2010 US$) | Volume of imports and exports divided by GDP | |
| Total trade (% of GDP) | Volume of imports and exports over GDP | |
| Agriculture, value-added (% GDP) | Net output of forestry, hunting, and fishing, as well as cultivation of crops and livestock production, after adding up all outputs and subtracting intermediate inputs, divided by GDP | |
| Financial development index | Aggregate of nine indices that summarise how developed financial institutions and financial markets are in terms of their depth, access, and efficiency | Svirydzenka (Reference Svirydzenka2016) |
Source: Authors’ calculations.
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