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- Title
The Colonial Budgets, a Sophisticated Portuguese Late Imperialism Propaganda Device.
- Authors
Madeira, Luís Filipe
- Abstract
This article aims to demonstrate that the balanced budgets registered annually in the public accounts of each and every African colony under Portuguese was essentially an elaborate accounting ploy that did not in the least reflect the effective financial flows within empire. During the last decades of the Portuguese rule under the Estado Novo or New State, it enabled the government of the overseas territories to boast one of its allegedly most remarkable achievements as far as colonial administration was concerned. To demonstrate actual accounting mechanisms and financial flows, the revenues and expenditures registered in each colony's annual accounts are reorganised here according to alternative criteria for public budgeting, less permeable to the manipulation of accounts. Subsequently, the reformulation of public accounts is then corrected for revenues and expenditures which despite being essential for to the governance of each African colony, were not registered in the respective official accounts.
- Publication
Portuguese Studies Review, 2017, Vol 25, Issue 1, p255
- ISSN
1057-1515
- Publication type
Academic Journal