The Fiscal Dimensions of Conflict and Reconstruction

Tony Addison and Mansoob Murshed

No DP2001-49, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Political violence, coup d'état, civil wars and inter-state wars, all have fiscal dimensions (and sometimes fiscal causes). Who gets what—public employment and public spending—and who has to pay for it, are questions that raise fundamental issues about the distribution of society's resources. These can only be resolved peacefully by some form of social contract, resting on the foundation of effective fiscal institutions (systems of public spending and taxation). Accordingly, the paper contrasts the evolution of fiscal institutions in stable and unstable societies.

Keywords: Public expenditures; Fiscal policy; Institutional economics; Poverty; Social conflict (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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