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JEL Code: N27

Economic History  →  Financial Markets and Institutions  →  Africa • Oceania

Fiscal Capacity and State Formation in Francophone West Africa, 1850-2010

Jens Andersson

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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...
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Colonial Origins of the Threefold Reality of Mozambique: fiscal capacity and labour systems

Kleoniki Alexopoulou and Dacil Juif

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The question whether institutions in Africa were shaped by the metropolitan identity of the colonizer or by local conditions is lively debated in the African economic history literature. In this paper we...
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Financing the African Colonial State: The Revenue Imperative and Forced Labour

Marlous van Waijenburg

Posted in Working Papers

Recent studies on colonial public finance have pointed to the severe constraints to fiscal capacity building Sub-Saharan Africa, and to the inclination of colonial governments to avoid direct taxes when revenue from...
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The Curious Incident of the Franc in the Gambia: Floating Exchange Rates and the British Imperial Monetary System in the 1920s

Leigh Gardner

Posted in Working Papers

In 1922, the British colonial administration in the Gambia demonetized the French five franc coin, which had been legal tender since 1843. The cost of the demonetization was equal to a year’s...
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Endogenous Colonial Institutions: Lessons from Fiscal Capacity Building in British and French Africa, 1880-1940

Ewout Frankema and Marlous van Waijenburg

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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...
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Future challenges in measuring Africa’s past: Lessons from estimating GDP for the Gold Coast, 1891-1954

Morten Jerven

Posted in Working Papers

There has been a recent surge in research on long term African development. For this research agenda to be fruitful and its theories, it is crucial to have consistent estimates of economic...
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Moving Forward in African Economic History: Bridging the Gap Between Methods and Sources

Morten Jerven, Gareth Austin, Erik Green, Chibuike Uche, Ewout Frankema, Johan Fourie, Joseph Inikori, Alexander Moradi and Ellen Hillbom

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The field of African economic history is in resurgence. This paper reviews recent and on-going research contributions and notes strengths in their wide methodological, conceptual and topical variety. In these strengths there...
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Africa African Union agriculture Botswana colonial economy colonial institutions Colonialism Commodities Commodity Trade Comparative History data development Economic blocs economic development Economic Growth Economic integration ECOWAS education fiscal capacity GDP gender health Human Capital inequality Institutions Intra-African Trade labour living standards long-term development marriage patterns missionaries monetary systems Mozambique political economy population Religion Sub-Saharan Africa taxation Terms of trade trade Trust Uganda Urbanization welfare ratio West Africa

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E62 F54 H5 H11 H20 I2 I25 I30 I32 J1 J12 J15 J16 J43 J47 N N1 N17 N25 N27 N37 N47 N57 N67 N77 N87 N97 O1 O10 O14 O18 O25 O33 O43 O55 P48 Q1 Q50 R11 R12 R40 Z1 Z10 Z12 Z13
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