Publications
Monographs
Gwaindepi, A. (2018). State-building in the colonial era: Public revenue, expenditure and borrowing patterns in the Cape Colony, 1820- 1910 (Doctoral dissertation, Stellenbosch: Stellenbosch University).
Peer-reviewed journal articles
Gwaindepi, A. (2024) Taxation in the context of high informality: Conceptual challenges and evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Journal: Review of Development Economics https://doi.org/10.1111/rode.13163
Meister, S., & Gwaindepi,. A (2024) Contract Farming and Multidimensional Poverty in Low-Income Countries: An Analysis of Smallholder Farmers Africa Development (Accepted/In print)
Alhola, S., & Gwaindepi, A. (2024). Land tenure formalisation and perceived tenure security: Two decades of the land administration project in Ghana. Land Use Policy, 143, 107195. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.landusepol.2024.107195
Gwaindepi, A. (2023) The Wealth and Poverty of African States: Economic Growth, Living Standards and Taxation since the Late Nineteenth Century African Affairs, 122 (486), 167–169 https://doi.org/10.1093/afraf/adac037
Gwaindepi, A. (2022). Fiscal capacity in ‘‘responsible government’’ colonies: the Cape Colony in comparative perspective, c. 1865–1910. European Review of Economic History, 26(3), 340-369. https://doi.org/10.1093/ereh/heab019
Easton, A. and Gwaindepi, A Easton, A. (2021) Colonial Extractvism and Development: The state and private diamond extraction at the British Cape Colony, 1870-1910. The Extractive Industries and Society (early view) https://doi.org/10.1016/j.exis.2021.100945
Gwaindepi, A. (2021). Domestic revenue mobilisation in developing countries: An exploratory analysis of sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Journal of International Development, 33(1), 396–421 https://doi.org/10.1002/jid.3528
Gwaindepi, A., & Fourie, J. (2020) Public Sector Growth in the British Cape Colony: Evidence From New Data on Expenditure and Foreign Debt, 1830‐1910. South African Journal of Economics, 88(3), 341-367 https://doi.org/10.1111/saje.12257
Gwaindepi, A., & Siebrits, K. (2020) 'Hit your man where you can’: Taxation strategies in the face of resistance at the British Cape Colony, c. 1820 to 1910. Economic History of Developing Regions, 35(3), 171-194. DOI: 10.1080/20780389.2020.1791699
Book Chapters
Gwaindepi, A., & Siebrits, K. (2019). How Mineral Discovery Shaped the Fiscal System of South Africa. In E. Frankema & A. Booth (Eds.), Fiscal Capacity and the Colonial State in Asia and Africa, c.1850–1960 (pp. 264–298). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Gwaindepi, A (2023) “Taxation in Africa since colonial times”, In Ewout Frankema, Ellen Hillbom, Ushehwedu Kufakurinani and Felix Meier zu Selhausen (eds.), The History of African Development: An Online Textbook for a New Generation of African Students and Teachers. African Economic History Network. https://www.aehnetwork.org/textbook/taxation-in-africa-since-colonial-times/
Working papers and policy studies and briefs
Gwaindepi, A. and Siebrits K. (2023). Will Africa be part of the ‘golden decade’ of sustainable finance? Insights from GSSS bonds. DIIS Working Paper; No. 10
Gwaindepi, A. and Siebrits K. (2023). Despite their great potential, "green" bonds are still not catching on in Africa: What can African countries and international stakeholders do? Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS) Policy Brief
Peter Albrecht, P., Gravesen, M., Gwaindepi, A, et al. (2023) Managing Africa's resources equitably demand accountable states. Danish Institute for International Studies (DIIS), p. 1-4, 4 p. (DIIS Policy Brief).
Gwaindepi, A. (2022) Domestic revenue mobilisation and informality: recent trends, challenges, and opportunities for Sub-Saharan Africa. UNU-WIDER Working Paper Series WIDER Working Paper Series, https://www.wider.unu.edu/sites/default/files/Publications/Working-paper/PDF/wp2022-120-domestic-revenue-mobilization-informality-challenges-opportunities-sub-Saharan-Africa.pdf
Gwaindepi, A. (2019), Domestic revenue mobilization in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America: A comparative analysis since 1980 39 p. (Lund Papers in Economic History. Development Economics; no. 2019:209). https://portal.research.lu.se/portal/en/persons/abel-gwaindepi(d1e23903-e085-4356-a998-8636559e133a).html
Gwaindepi, A. (2019) Serving God and Mammon: The 'Minerals-Railway Complex' and its effects on colonial public finances in the British Cape Colony, 1810-1910. Stellenbosch Working Paper Series No. WP07/2019 https://www.ekon.sun.ac.za/wpapers/2019/wp072019
Gwaindepi, A. and Fourie J (2019) The origins of extractive states in Africa: The case of the British Cape Colony, 1834-1909. Economic Research Southern Africa, ERSA working paper 783. https://econrsa.org/publications/working-papers
Work in progress
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