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Controls on dividend payments by companies were lifted at the end of July 1979 after nearly seven years of continuous operation. This article examines some of the legal, fiscal and economic factors bearing on corporate decisions on the size of dividends, and investigates the path of dividends and dividend payout ratios over the period 1961-79.
Dividend payments some recent trends