Arnau Maestre’s Reviews > The Origins of Political Order: From Prehuman Times to the French Revolution > Status Update

Many parts of sub-Saharan Africa are a libertarians paradise. The region as a whole is a low-tax utopia, with governments often unable to collect more than about 10 percent of GDP in taxes, compared to 50 percent in parts of Europe. Rather than unleashing entrepreneurship, this low rate of taxation means that basic public services like health, education, and pothole filling are starved of funding.