What was the capacity of European colonial states? How fiscally extractive were they? What was their capacity to provide public goods and services? And did this change in the “developmentalist” era of colonialism? To answer these questions, we use archival sources to build a new dataset on colonial states of the second French colonial empire (1830–1962). French colonial states extracted a substantial amount of revenue, but they were under-administered because public expenditure entailed high wage costs. These costs remained a strong constraint in the “developmentalist” era of colonialism, despite a dramatic increase in fiscal capacity and large overseas subsidies.

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殖民地国家的财政能力和二元论：法兰西帝国 1830-1962

欧洲殖民国家的能力如何？他们在财政上的榨取程度如何？他们提供公共产品和服务的能力如何？在殖民主义的“发展主义”时代，这是否发生了变化？为了回答这些问题，我们使用档案资源建立了一个关于第二个法国殖民帝国（1830-1962）的殖民国家的新数据集。法国殖民地国家提取了大量收入，但由于公共支出导致高工资成本，因此管理不善。在“发展主义”殖民主义时代，这些成本仍然是一个强大的制约因素，尽管财政能力急剧增加，海外补贴也很大。