Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/242651 
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Year of Publication: 
2015
Series/Report no.: 
African Economic History Working Paper Series No. 22/2015
Publisher: 
African Economic History Network (AEHN), s.l.
Abstract: 
This study contributes to African state and fiscal history by presenting a detailed comparison of the evolution of fiscal capacity in four countries in francophone West Africa – Benin, Côte d'Ivoire, Niger and Senegal - over both the colonial and independent periods. While common patterns and persistence can be observed it is instead the unique fiscal pathways of the individual countries that stand out. These pathways can only be understood by analyzing how the underlying economic and political factors of each country develop over time. The importance of the colonial heritage in the development of fiscal capacity for individual countries should therefore not be overemphasized.
Subjects: 
Africa
economic history
fiscal capacity
francophone
JEL: 
N17
N27
N47
N97
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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