Role of stakeholder in revenue mobilization to alleviate poverty in Ghana using E-governance mechanisms

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of the stakeholder in revenue mobilization at the MMDAs in Ghana as a roadmap to further identifying ways of achieving revenue improvements and poverty reduction by adopting e-governance mechanisms. This study also identifies three main roles of the stakeholders in the MMMDs to be: Compliance, Motivation to comply, Enforcement; and a moderating role to be monitoring and supervisory. It was conducted in selected MMDAs in Ghana and the findings may not apply to all other MMDAs. There is also literature limitation. The practical implication should help understand the importance of adopting e-governance in Ghana’s revenue generation system which will help avoid problems like evasion and improve revenue as a dimension to poverty reduction. The paper identified role of the stakeholder at the local level. Previous studies focused on stakeholder management and regulations that help prevent evasion and other problems, thus this study delves into e-governance integration into Ghana’s revenue system which is an area that has not received much attention in several literature.