Abdulaziz B. Shifa

Colonial Legacy, State-building and the Salience of Ethnicity in Sub-Saharan Africa

Merima Ali, Odd-Helge Fjeldstad, Boqian Jiang et al. · The Economic Journal · 2018 · 84 citations · Full text

Ethnicity, Colonialism, Nationalism +20

Information Technology and Fiscal Capacity in a Developing Country: Evidence from Ethiopia

Merima Ali, Abdulaziz B. Shifa, Abebe Shimeles et al. · SSRN Electronic Journal · 2015 · 36 citations · Full text

The dual policy in the dual economy—The political economy of urban bias in dictatorial regimes

Abdulaziz B. Shifa · Journal of Development Economics · 2013 · 32 citations

Regime Analysis, Democracy, Economics +15

European colonization and the corruption of local elites: The case of chiefs in Africa

Merima Ali, Odd‐Helge Fjeldstad, Abdulaziz B. Shifa · Journal of Economic Behavior & Organization · 2020 · 25 citations

African History, Settler Colonialism, Nationalism +10

Building Fiscal Capacity in Developing Countries: Evidence on the Role of Information Technology

Merima Ali, Abdulaziz B. Shifa, Abebe Shimeles et al. · National Tax Journal · 2021 · 23 citations

Optimal Taxation, Fiscal Issue, Economic Development +21