On Tax Efforts and Colonial Heritage in Africa

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Aid and Government Fiscal Behavior: Assessing Recent Evidence (2015, background): “Mkandawire (2010) argues that the nature of their colonial experience established institutional features that continue to help explain why some African countries have higher tax revenue than others.”
The ICTD Government Revenue Dataset (2014, background): “This has in turn been reflected in the relatively rapid expansion of research, including extensive cross-country econometric research, exploring, among other areas: the connections between taxation, non-tax revenue and good governance (Ross 2004; Mahon 2005; Timmons 2005; Haber and Menaldo 2011; Bas”
Fiscal Capacity and the Quality of Government in Sub-Saharan Africa (2013, background): “Another reasonable proxy for fiscal capacity is a tax effort variable (Mkandawire, 2010).”
Neopatrimonialism and the Political Economy of Economic Performance in Africa: Critical Reflections (2015, unknown): “97 mkandawire 2010.”
Going Where the Money Is: Strategies for Taxing Economic Elites in Unequal Democracies (2013, background): “42 (Lieberman, 2003), colonial legacies (Mkandawire, 2010) or other path-dependent processes (Kurtz, 2009), and patterns of contentious politics (Slater, 2010).”