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Endogenous Colonial Institutions: Lessons from Fiscal Capacity Building in British and French Africa, 1880-1940
Given difficult to access pre-colonial forms of surplus extraction, African colonial governments faced severe constraints to raise revenue for incipient colonial state formation. This paper compares the ways in which the British and the French dealt with this challenge in a quantitative framework. We exploit colonial government budget accounts to construct PPP-adjusted comparisons of per capita government revenue by source. A comparison of fiscal capacity building shows that pragmatic responses to varying local economic, political and demographic conditions can easily be mistaken for specific metropolitan blueprints of colonial governance and that under comparable local circumstances the French and British operated in remarkably similar ways.
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978-91-981477-0-4
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Englisch
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Series: African Economic History Working Paper Series ; No. 11/2013
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Wirtschaft
Fiscal Policy
Structure, Scope, and Performance of Government
Taxation, Subsidies, and Revenue: General
Economic History: Financial Markets and Institutions: Asia including Middle East
Economic History: Financial Markets and Institutions: Africa; Oceania
Economic Development: General
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colonial institutions
fiscal policy
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Geistige Schöpfung
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Frankema, Ewout
van Waijenburg, Marlous
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Veröffentlichung
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African Economic History Network (AEHN)
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s.l.
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2013
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- Last update
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10.03.2025, 11:41 AM CET
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Object type
- Arbeitspapier
Associated
- Frankema, Ewout
- van Waijenburg, Marlous
- African Economic History Network (AEHN)
Time of origin
- 2013
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