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Tax Revenue and Economic Growth in Selected ECOWAS Countries, Evidence from Sure Model

The need for African countries to improve tax revenue-GDP ratio has open up debate among policy makers.This study is motivated to analyse the impact of tax revenue, direct and indirect tax on economic growth of ECOWAS countries, using Seemingly Unrelated Regression Estimate (SURE) analysis for five selected Economic Community of West African States (Nigeria, Ghana, Sierra Leone, Benin and Burkina Faso) using data from 2000-2015 generated from World Bank World Development Indicators, 2016.Findings reveal that total tax revenue has positive and significant effect on economic growth an increase i…

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