Colonial income taxpayers and top incomes in Central Africa: Historical evidence

Atkinson, Anthony B.

doi:10.35648/20.500.12413/11781/ii179

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“…This method covering different percentiles, may range for more than the three percentiles, but this study for simplicity will confined to the three ones which include 1%, 0.05% and 0.01%. Moreover, this method is meant to detect whether income is polarized in the higher income plateau or not (Atkinson, 2011).…”

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Shared Prosperity and the Quintile Income in Sudan: Preliminary Findings

Omer¹

2023

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This paper attempted to tackle tow issues: the first issue is the income distribution top income quintiles (including some parcels) with bottom 20% and 40% ones. Secondly whether economic growth alone, could reduce extreme poverty and mitigate income inequality in Sudan? Different prosperity shared indicators applied to data obtained from two Labor Force Migration households’ Surveys collected by Ministry of Manpower for years 1996 and 2011. The findings of this study indicated that the income share of bottom 40% failed to catch up with shares of top 10%.and overall per capita .Accordingly, all the shared prosperity indicators results were associated with idea of polarization in the Sudan society, and more importantly CAGR (as one of indicators) empathized that the bottom 20% income have to grow by more than 60% annually in order to catch up with overall per capita growth during the period of the study. To improve the picture of the income distribution and to reverse the situation of poverty in Sudan, the pattern of economic growth has to be restructured and to be associated with high economic participation. The paper recommended a deliberate government intervention to improve income distribution.

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Shared Prosperity and the Quintile Income in Sudan: Preliminary Findings

Omer¹

2023

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“…A major part of the exports was constituted by gold. As described in Atkinson (2014), taking gold output valued at the ruling gold price provides a reasonable explanation of national income over the period 1924 to 1939, and this has been used to make estimates of national income for the years 1917 to 1923. A similar approach is adopted in the case of Northern Rhodesia, based on the output of the copper industry, which grew from negligible size in the 1920s to represent a major part of the economy: from 1920 to 1960 "the copper industry transformed Northern Rhodesia from a comparatively stationary economy into a rapidly growing one" (Baldwin, 1966, page 40).…”

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“…The methods and findings are discussed at greater length in three background papers covering Central Africa(Atkinson, 2014), East Africa(Atkinson, 2014a) and West Africa(Atkinson, 2014b). These are being made available on the website of the World Top Incomes Database.…”

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The colonial legacy: Income inequality in former British African colonies

Atkinson¹

2014

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Top incomes in South Africa in the twentieth century

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Atkinson

2021

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There have been important studies of recent income inequality and of poverty in South Africa, but very little is known about the long-run trends over time. There is speculation about the extent of inequality when the Union of South Africa was formed in 1910, but no hard evidence. In this paper, we provide evidence that is partial—being confined to top incomes—but which for the first time shows how the income distribution changed on a (near) annual basis from 1913 onwards. We present estimates of the shares in total income of groups such as the top 1% and the top 0.1%, covering the period from colonial times to the twenty-first century. For a number of years during the apartheid period, we have data classified by race. The estimates for recent years bear out the picture of South Africa as a highly unequal country, but allow this to be placed in historical and international context. The time series presented here will, we hope, provide the basis for detailed investigation of the impact of South African institutions and policies, past and present. But the similarity of the changes over time in top incomes across the four ex-dominions suggests that national developments have to be seen in the light of common global forces.

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Colonial income taxpayers and top incomes in Central Africa: Historical evidence

Abstract: College, Oxford and INET at the Oxford Martin School 1. Introduction 2. Income tax data 3. Control totals for population 4. The income tax payers 5. The upper tail of the income distribution 6. Control totals for income 7. Top income percentiles and shares 8. Conclusions

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Shared Prosperity and the Quintile Income in Sudan: Preliminary Findings

Shared Prosperity and the Quintile Income in Sudan: Preliminary Findings

The colonial legacy: Income inequality in former British African colonies

Top incomes in South Africa in the twentieth century

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