This title strikes a fine balance between theory, evidence and policy in the area of domestic resource mobilization and explores the crucial role that financial development should play.It contains an important collection of essays on the centrality of financial development for domestic resource mobilization in low-income countries. It brings together original works by leading experts in the field. It includes detailed country experiences of financial sectors reforms, both in Africa (including Ethiopia, Morocco and Zambia) and Asia (including China, South Korea and Vietnam), and applicable policy lessons.This book provides insights into the evolving debate regarding the mobilization of domestic resources and the crucial role that financial development can and should play in this regard, exploring aspects of the financial development - domestic resource mobilization nexus, including country case studies.