The paper examines the legacy of pre-colonial centralization on tax compliance norms of citizens in contemporary Uganda. By combining geo-referenced anthropological data on precolonial ethnic homelands with survey data from several rounds of the Afrobarometer Survey, respondents from the...

In the aftermath of the Covid-19 pandemic, the need in poor countries in Africa for more revenues is obvious and growing - also because aid agencies are quite stingy in assisting them in this crisis. The pandemic's negative impact on revenues is especially pronounced in countries that are most...