Predatory Peace: Fiscal Fragmentation and Coercive Statebuilding in South Sudan and Beyond
This article analyses how peace agreements have reconfigured, rather than dismantled, predatory fiscal rule in South Sudan.
Author: Benson
Of Rule not Revenue: South Sudan’s Revenue Complex from Colonial, Rebel, to Independent...
This article analyses rulers’ revenue raising practices in colonial, post-colonial rebel-led, and independent South Sudan and argues that the ethos of revenue raising in the region has been and...
The Everyday Politics of Sudan's Tax System: Identifying Prospects for Reform
Decades of revenue centralisation has inadvertently supported formal and informal sub-elites that present both threats to and opportunities for reform.
Taxation and Civicness in South Sudan
This policy brief identifies how different eras of tax practices - from colonial occupation to the present - continue to inform extractive governance outcomes in South Sudan.
South Sudan: The Politics of Delay
This memo argues that recurrent postponement of a definitive political settlement in South Sudan is a characteristic of a turbulent political marketplace, and that it serves the interests of...