In this paper we estimate the level and inequality of income for Bechuanaland Protectorate by constructing four social … structures. Our focus is on identifying the roots of post-independence high levels of inequality. We find that first of all that … and private formal employment. In conclusion we infer that Botswana's contemporary institutional inequality has far …

This paper contributes to a growing literature on understanding drivers of pre-industrial inequality by constructing … historically and today. We show, however, that income inequality rose rapidly during the colonial period, to inequality levels … regional inequality trends. Initial land abundance in the forest area provided opportunities for its population to engage in …

In this paper we estimate the level and inequality of income for Bechuanaland Protectorate by constructing four social … structures. Our focus is on identifying the roots of post-independence high levels of inequality. We find that first of all that … and private formal employment. In conclusion we infer that Botswana’s contemporary institutional inequality has far …

of 18th century French incomes and inequality. …

Rising poverty and inequality increases the risk of social instability in countries all around the world. For measuring … poverty and inequality there exists a variety of statistical indicators. Estimating these indicators is trivial as long as the … income variable. Based on these pseudo samples, poverty and inequality indicators are estimated. The standard errors of the …

counterparts, then by comparing the true and generated values of the Gini coefficient and other inequality indices. The results …We describe a new method of facilitating inequality and poverty analysis of grouped distributional data by allowing …