lens of the recent post-conflict experience of Colombia, this paper explores the challenges of increasing tax revenues amid … violence and illicit economic activities. We study four factors that the literature has identified as key determinants of a … country's local fiscal capacity: early land conflicts; historical political violence; recent political violence; and the …

Buenaventura, in southwestern Colombia. Relying on six months of fieldwork experience in a hardware shop of Ciudad Blanca, an … impoverished neighborhood, I examine the everyday violence and the responses of the population. Due to the deficient infrastructure …