Armed group taxation and trade: Smuggler perspectives from Northeast India

Shalaka Thakur

No wp-2026-92, WIDER Working Paper Series from World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER)

Abstract: How does changing armed group taxation during conflict reshape smuggling and trade? This paper follows areca nut, one of northeast India's most heavily smuggled contraband commodities, through the eyes of the traders who move it across the Myanmar-Manipur borderlands.

Keywords: Armed conflict; Taxation; War economics; Ethnic conflict; Myanmar; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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