developing countries: Argentina, Brazil, Colombia, Kenya and Nigeria. Our analysis suggests that a new approach is needed for …

little historical scrutiny. Musgrave was the chief economist of the 1949 World Bank mission to Colombia chaired by Lauchlin … Currie. Twenty years later, he himself chaired an import fiscal reform mission in Colombia, the report of which served as a … intellectual baggage that Musgrave brought on his travels to Colombia. It situates his policy recommendations in the context of the …