Bakary Johnson Rouamba joins the CERDI as a Research Assistant

The team is pleased to welcome Bakary Johnson Rouamba as a research assistant working with Bertrand Laporte (CERDI, Université Clermont Auvergne). He will conduct an impact study on tax legislation on the African extractive sector.

He will conduct an impact study on tax legislation on the African extractive sector. In more detail, Bakary Johnson Rouamba will investigate the development of mining law and its constitutionalization across twenty countries. Previously an intern at the CERDI, he has an excellent knowledge of the taxation of the mining sector. Then, he analyzed the repercussions of economic sanctions on natural resource taxation between 2000 and 2020. This new research will encompass both de jure taxation using the FERDI's mining tax database —and de facto taxation, the effective resource mobilization. He will draw on World Bank and UNU-WIDER datasets to explore mining tax revenue.

Bakary Johnson Rouamba holds a Master's degree in Development Economics and Public Finance from the Ecole d’Economie, Université Clermont Auvergne.