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Fiscal Capacity and Dualism in Colonial States: The French Empire 1830-1962

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Date
2021
Dewey
Conditions et conjonctures économiques
Sujet
Histoire economique; fiscalite; periode coloniale; analyse economique
JEL code
N.N0.N01
Journal issue
The Journal of Economic History
Publication date
2021
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Forthcoming
oui
URI
https://basepub.dauphine.fr/handle/123456789/21424
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Author
Cogneau, Denis
11609 Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)
12772 Développement, institutions et analyses de long terme [DIAL]
139754 Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques [PSE]
Dupraz, Y.
139754 Paris-Jourdan Sciences Economiques [PSE]
Mesplé-Somps, Sandrine
559342 Laboratoire d'Economie de Dauphine [LEDa]
12772 Développement, institutions et analyses de long terme [DIAL]
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Article accepté pour publication ou publié
Abstract (EN)
What was the capacity of European colonial states? How fiscally extractive were they? What was their capacity to provide public goods and services? And did this change in the “developmentalist” era of colonialism? To answer these questions, we use archival sources to build a new dataset on colonial states of the second French colonial empire (1830-1962). French colonial states extracted a substantial amount of revenue, but they were under-administered because public expenditure entailed high wage costs. These costs remained a strong constraint in the “developmentalist” era of colonialism, despite a dramatic increase in fiscal capacity and large overseas subsidies.

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