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Changing income inequality and structural transformation: The case of Botswana 1921-2010

In English

Författare

Summary, in English

In Sub-Saharan Africa we find some of the highest levels of income inequality in the world. Nevertheless, we generally know very little about the historical development of inequality. In this paper we look at how inequality developed in colonial and post-colonial Botswana. We show that income inequality started rising in the 1940s and peaked in the mid-1970s about the time that the economy switched from cattle to diamonds. Since the 1990s, it has then declined somewhat. Following the tradition of Kuznets we discuss how this rise and decline could be related to a potential structural transformation of the economy.

Publiceringsår

2015

Språk

Engelska

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

WIDER Working Paper

Volym

2015/028

Dokumenttyp

Working paper

Förlag

UNU-WIDER

Ämne

  • Economic History

Nyckelord

  • Botswana
  • Africa
  • inequality
  • structural transformation

Status

Published

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISBN: 978-92-9230-913-8