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The colonial legacy : income inequality in former British African colonies
Atkinson, Anthony B. - 2014
This paper examines the distribution of top incomes in 15 former British colonies in Africa, drawing on evidence available from income tax records. It seeks to throw light on the position of colonial elites during the period of British rule. Just how unequal were incomes? How did the position of...
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Colonial Education, Political Elites, and Regional Political Inequality in Africa
Ricart-Huguet, Joan - 2020
Political elites tend to favor their home region when distributing resources. But what explains how political power is distributed across a country's regions to begin with? Explanations of cabinet formation focus on short-term strategic bargaining and some emphasize that ministries are allocated...
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Income inequality in colonial Africa : building social tables for pre-independence Central African Republic, Ivory Coast, and Senegal
Alfani, Guido; Tadei, Federico - 2017 - This version: January 18, 2017
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Income inequality in Africa, 1990-2019 : measurement, patterns, determinants
Chancel, Lucas; Cogneau, Denis; Gethin, Amory; … - In: World development : the multi-disciplinary … 163 (2023), pp. 1-23
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Measuring historical income inequality in Africa : what can we learn from social tables?
Hillbom, Ellen; Bolt, Jutta; Haas, Michiel de; Tadei, … - 2021
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012521263
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Income inequality and export-oriented commercialization in colonial Africa : evidence from six countries
Hillbom, Ellen; Bolt, Jutta; Haas, Michiel de; Tadei, … - In: The economic history review 77 (2024) 3, pp. 975-1004
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Monetary inequality among households in Togo : an illustration based on the decomposition of the Gini coefficient using the Shapley value approach
Noglo, Yawo Agbényégan - 2014
households in Togo according to the characteristics of household heads. The study is based on the most recent survey (QUIBB 2006 … findings witness that in Togo, policy actions to reduce inequalities should first target the within-group expenditure …
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Measuring and analyzing the non-monetary approach of multidimensional poverty by the basic needs in Togo
Noglo, Yawo Agbényégan - 2014
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Comparative Analysis of Young People’s Access to the Labor Market in Benin and Togo : An Application of the Inequality of Opportunity Index
Sanoussi, Yacobou - 2019
Togo. To fill this gap, we estimated the scope of the inequality of opportunities in access to youth labour market by … inequality of opportunity in the access of young people to a job in Togo compared to the situation in Benin and Liberia. We find … to Benin (74.26%) and Togo (45.05%).The levels of inequality of opportunities as well as the average coverage and access …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012893408
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Cereals Prices Increase, Household Welfare, Poverty and Income Inequality in Togo
LANIE, Tomgouani - 2020
, poverty and income inequality in Togo are estimated using households survey data in a compensating variation analysis … households. However, higher maize and sorghum prices do not significantly affect income inequality in Togo. Results vary across … reduction in Togo and an emphasis on the poorest region in Togo, the Savanna region, will yield greater results than other …
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