Fiscal Capacity and Government Accountability in Sub-Saharan Africa
| Baskaran, Thushyanthan | ||
| Bigsten, Arne | ||
| University of Gothenburg, Dept of Economics | sv | |
| 2011-06-15T09:33:13Z | ||
| 2011-06-15T09:33:13Z | ||
| 2011-06 | ||
| JEL classification: H20; P14; O23 | sv | |
| Historical evidence from the developed world suggests that the expansion of the mod- ern states’ fiscal capacity (i. e. its ability to tax citizens) eventually led to more democratic and less corrupt governments. Since sub-Saharan African countries are currently in a pro- cess of state building, we study whether a positive effect of fiscal capacity on government accountability prevails in contemporaneous sub-Saharan Africa, too. We conduct the em- pirical analysis with data covering 23 African countries over the 1960-2008 period. The results suggest that fiscal capacity increases government accountability in sub-Saharan Africa. | sv | |
| 1403-2465 | ||
| http://hdl.handle.net/2077/25676 | ||
| eng | sv | |
| Working Papers in Economics | sv | |
| 506 | sv | |
| fiscal capacity | sv | |
| taxation | sv | |
| government accountability | sv | |
| democracy | sv | |
| Fiscal Capacity and Government Accountability in Sub-Saharan Africa | sv | |
| Text | sv | |
| report | sv |