Ali, Merima; Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge; Shifa, Abdulaziz(African Economic History Network, 2021-07-19)
Corruption is considered one of the main contributors to Africa’s development challenges. Less is known about the determinants of corruption and its variation between countries. We find empirical evidence that British ...
African colonial history suggests that British colonial rule may have undermined state centralisation
due to legacies of ethnic segregation and stronger executive constraints. Using micro-data from
anglophone and francophone ...
PURPOSE : Inter-organisational cooperation in revenue collection has received limited attention in the tax administration literature. Recent experiences from Tanzania offer a unique opportunity to examine opportunities and ...
Ali, Merima; Fjeldstad, Odd-Helge(United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research, 2021-12)
The paper examines the legacy of pre-colonial centralization on tax compliance norms of citizens in contemporary Uganda. By combining geo-referenced anthropological data on pre-colonial ethnic homelands with survey data ...
