African states and development in historical perspective : colonial public finances in British and French West

Why does it seem so difficultto build a size able development a state in Africa ? A growing literature looks at the colonial roots of differences in economic development, often using the French/British difference as asource of variation to identify which features of the colonial pastmattered. We use...

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Autores principales: Cogneau, Denis, Dupraz, Y., Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine
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Publicado: PSE 2018
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HISTOIRE ECONOMIQUE
FISCALITE
COLONISATION
ANALYSE ECONOMIQUE
DEVELOPPEMENT ECONOMIQUE
Acceso en línea:http://www.documentation.ird.fr/hor/fdi:010072984
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=fr/fr-001&d=010072984oai
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topic HISTOIRE ECONOMIQUE
FISCALITE
COLONISATION
ANALYSE ECONOMIQUE
DEVELOPPEMENT ECONOMIQUE
spellingShingle HISTOIRE ECONOMIQUE
FISCALITE
COLONISATION
ANALYSE ECONOMIQUE
DEVELOPPEMENT ECONOMIQUE
Cogneau, Denis
Dupraz, Y.
Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine
African states and development in historical perspective : colonial public finances in British and French West
topic_facet HISTOIRE ECONOMIQUE
FISCALITE
COLONISATION
ANALYSE ECONOMIQUE
DEVELOPPEMENT ECONOMIQUE
description Why does it seem so difficultto build a size able development a state in Africa ? A growing literature looks at the colonial roots of differences in economic development, often using the French/British difference as asource of variation to identify which features of the colonial pastmattered. We use historical archives to build a new data set of public finances in French and British colonies of West Africa from 1900 to in dependence.Though we find some significant differences between French and British colonies, we conclude that over all patterns of public finances were similarin both empires. The most striking fact is the greatin crease in expenditure per capitain the last decades of colonization : it quadrupled between the end o World War II and independence. This increase inexpenditure was made possible partly by an increase incustoms revenue due to rising trade flows, but mostly by policy changes: netsubsidies from colonizers to their colonies became positive, while, within the colonies, direct and indirect taxation rates increased. We conclude that the last fifteen years of colonization area key period tounderstand colonial legacies.
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author Cogneau, Denis
Dupraz, Y.
Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine
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title African states and development in historical perspective : colonial public finances in British and French West
title_short African states and development in historical perspective : colonial public finances in British and French West
title_full African states and development in historical perspective : colonial public finances in British and French West
title_fullStr African states and development in historical perspective : colonial public finances in British and French West
title_full_unstemmed African states and development in historical perspective : colonial public finances in British and French West
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