The base of the grade II listed Victoria Column in Royal Victoria Park. High income countries are typically those that exploited other countries and territories through past feudal and then capitalist empires often with settler colonisation and genocide overseas. British monarchs, as Head of State, were titled Empress or Emperor of India from 1876 to 1948. Inequality between countries persists due to less obvious present day exploitation.
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