Working Paper
Glimpses of fiscal states in sub-Saharan Africa
There is a widespread perception that taxing in sub-Saharan Africa has been and remains fraught with problems or government failure. This is not generally true. For more than a century, colonial administrations and independent states have steadily...
Panel discussion
Fiscal States panel at APSA 2022 annual meeting
On 16 September 2022 UNU-WIDER is organising a panel at the 2022 American Political Science Association’s (APSA) Annual Meeting & Exhibition on the topic of Fiscal States in Developing Countries: Origins and Developmental Implications. The panel...
Fri, 16 September 2022
Palais de congrés de Montréal ,
Montreal,
Canada
Past event
Presentation
Antonio Savoia presenting at the 63rd Annual Conference (RSA) of the Italian Economic Association (SIE)
Antonio Savoia, Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, presents at the 63rd Annual Conference (RSA) of the Italian Economic Association (SIE), held on October 20-22, 2022 in Turin, Italy. See programme on the organisers' website. At the...
Thu, 20 October 2022
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Sat, 22 October 2022
Campus Luigi Einaudi,
Torino,
Italy
Past event
Presentation
Antonio Savoia presenting at the 22nd AISSEC Conference
Antonio Savoia, Non-Resident Senior Research Fellow at UNU-WIDER, presents research from the Fiscal states – the origins and developmental implications project in the 22nd Associazione Italiana per lo Studio dei Sistemi Economici Comparati (AISSEC)...
Fri, 17 June 2022
G. D’Annunzio University,
Via dei Vestini, 31,
Pescara,
Italy
Past event
Working Paper
Fiscal states in sub-Saharan Africa: conceptualization and empirical trends
This paper contributes to the debate on domestic revenue mobilization and state-building in the Global South by asking whether there are fiscal states in sub-Saharan Africa. To answer this question, we review the diverse understandings of the fiscal...
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