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Tax dealing: State and private sector relations in Somalia

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  • Gayatri Sahgal

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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.

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  • Gayatri Sahgal, 2025. "Tax dealing: State and private sector relations in Somalia," WIDER Working Paper Series wp-2025-66, World Institute for Development Economic Research (UNU-WIDER).
    • Handle: RePEc:unu:wpaper:wp-2025-66
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