State Capacity, Conflict and Development

By Timothy J. Besley, Torsten Persson. 2009

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Warfare, fiscal capacity, and performance (2012, neutral): “In this respect, the closest antecedent to our paper is the recent set of works by Besley and Persson (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011), which examines the relationships between conflict, state capacity, and growth over time.”
States and economic growth: Capacity and constraints☆ (2017, background): “Alongside there theoretical contributions of Besley and Persson (2009, 2010, 2011) there are some other theoretical contributions to this nascent field including McBride et al. (2011) and Herrera and Martinelli (2013).”
Shadow economies around the world: novel insights, accepted knowledge, and new estimates (2011, background): “insufficient fiscal capacities, which may result in poor growth performance (Besley and Persson 2010).”
Democracy, State Capacity, and Economic Growth (2013, background): “However, the type of taxation pursued in countries with low state capacity, where regular monitoring and taxing of income and consumption is difficult, is extra distortionary (e.g. Besley & Persson, 2009).”
Why Can Modern Governments Tax so Much? An Agency Model of Firms as Fiscal Intermediaries (2016, background): “Recently, Besley and Persson (2008, 2009) propose an extension of the ratchet effect theory that emphasizes the role of increasing fiscal capacity over the course of development.”
The Incidence of Civil War: Theory and Evidence (2008, methodology): “Column ( 4 ) of Table 3 further disaggregates the export and import prices into agricultural products and minerals.”
CONFLICT AND DEVELOPMENT (2017, background): “The recent contributions by Besley & Persson (2008, 2009, 2010, 2011) and McBride et al. (2011) have not only popularized among economists the notion of “state capacity” but have also developed a more nuanced theoretical basis for thinking about the intertwined connections between capacity and…”
Ecology, trade and states in pre-colonial Africa (2014, background): “The origins of state capacity have, however, received comparatively little attention in the literature (Besley and Persson, 2010).”
Commodity Price Shocks and Civil Conflict: Evidence from Colombia (2013, background): “More recent work in this area include Besley and Persson (2010), whose theory demonstrates that resource dependence can increase the propensity toward conflict while lowering income and state capacity; Mitra and Ray (2010), who show that income increases of one group trigger greater ethnic violence…”