Tax dealing: State and private sector relations in Somalia

Gayatri Sahgal

No wp-2025-66, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: Taxation is often described as the material expression of the social contract. However, this conceptualization largely reflects the Anglo-European experience and provides limited explanatory power for analysing taxation in African states, which did not experience the type of state-society bargains seen in Western Europe. Beyond neo-patrimonial and resource curse arguments, relatively limited research has theorized the political challenges underpinning domestic resource mobilization and the difficulties facing African states in collecting revenues from large businesses.

Keywords: Taxation; Political economy; Somalia; Fragile states; Political settlements; Private sector (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2025
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
https://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/Publ ... dealings-Somalia.pdf (application/pdf)

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2025-66

Access Statistics for this paper

More papers in WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER) Contact information at EDIRC.
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Siméon Rapin ().