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Personal Wealth from a Global Perspective
Edited by James B. Davies
496 pages
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numerous tables and figures
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234x156mm
978-0-19-954889-7
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Paperback
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13 November 2008
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- Provides a global perspective on personal wealth and its distribution
- Includes detailed coverage of major developing countries like China, India, and Brazil
- Enriches understanding of poverty and lack of resources in poorest countries and for the poorest people in developing countries
There is great media fascination in the activities and lifestyles of the super-rich. But personal wealth is also important for those of more modest means as a store of potential consumption, as a cushion against emergencies, and as collateral for business and investment loans. This book is the first global study of household assets and debts. It documents not only the level, distribution, and trend of wealth holdings in rich nations, but also addresses developing countries like China and India. The situation in Latin America and Africa is given attention along with the experiences of Russia
and other transition countries. Components of household wealth like financial assets, land, and property are examined, as well as the gender division. Worldwide, it is estimated that the richest 2% own more than half of total global wealth, and that this elite group resides almost exclusively in North America, Western Europe, and rich Asia-Pacific countries.Readership: Economists, sociologists, economic geographers, and finance specialists concerned with personal assets and wealth and/or economic inequality; International institutions and development organizations; Central Banks, treasuries and other government agencies.
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Edited by James B. Davies, Professor and RBC Financial Group Fellow, Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario Contributors:
Janine Aron, Centre for the Study of African Economies, University of Oxford
Juliano Assunção, Pontifical Catholic University, Rio de Janeiro
Anthony B. Atkinson, University of Oxford
Frikkie Booysen, Centre for Health Systems Research and Development, University of the Free State
Ronelle Burger, Stellenbosch University
James B. Davies, Director of the Economic Policy Research Institute, University of Western Ontario
Carmen Diana Deere, Director
of the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida
Cheryl R. Doss, Yale University
Sergei Guriev, New Economic School, Moscow
Patrick Honohan, Trinity College, Dublin
Markus Jäntti, Åbo Akademi University
D. Jayaraj, Madras Institute of Development Studies
Shi Li, Director of the Center for Income Distribution and Poverty Studies, Beijing Normal University
James C. MacGee, University of Western Ontario
John Muellbauer, University of Oxford
Henry Ohlsson, Uppsala University
Sangeeta Pratap, Hunter College and the Graduate Center of the City University of New York
Johan Prinsloo, University of the Free State, South Africa
Erwan Quintin, Federal
Reserve Bank of Dallas
Andrei Rachinsky, Center for Economic and Financial Research, New Economic School, Moscow
Christian Rogg, UK Department for International Development (DFID)
Jesper Roine, SITE, Stockholm School of Economics
Susanna Sandström, UNU-WIDER
Anthony Shorrocks, Director, UNU-WIDER
Eva Sierminska, CEPS/INSTEAD
Seymour Spilerman, Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality, Columbia University
S. Subramanian, Madras Institute of Development Studies
Florencia Torche, New York University and Center for the Study of Wealth and Inequality, Columbia University
Servaas van der Berg, University of Stellenbosch, South Africa
Michael von Maltitz, University of
the Free State, South Africa
Daniel Waldenström, Research Institute of Industrial Economics in Stockholm
Edward N. Wolff, New York University and the Levy Economics Institute of Bard College
Ruslan Yemtsov, World Bank
Renwei Zhao, Institute of Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences
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1: James B. Davies: An Overview of Personal Wealth
Part I: The Rich and the Super-Rich
2: Markus Jäntti and Eva Sierminska: Survey Estimates of Wealth Holdings in OECD Countries: Evidence on the Level and Distribution across Selected Countries
3: Henry Ohlsson, Jesper Roine, and Daniel Waldenström: Long-Run Changes in the Concentration of Wealth: An Overview of Recent Findings
4: Anthony B. Atkinson: Concentration among the Rich
Part II: Wealth Holdings in the Developing World and Transition Countries
5: Shi Li and Renwei Zhao: Changes in the Distribution of Wealth in China, 1995-2002
6: S. Subramanian and D. Jayaraj: The Distribution of Household Wealth in India
7: Sergei Guriev and Andrei Rachinsky: The Evolution of Personal Wealth in the Former Soviet Union and Central and Eastern Europe
8: Florencia Torche and Seymour Spilerman: Household Wealth in Latin America
9: Juliano Assunção: Land Reform and Land Holdings in Brazil
10: Janine Aron, John Muellbauer, and Johan Prinsloo: Estimating the Balance Sheet of the Personal Sector in an Emerging Market Country: South Africa, 1975-2003
11: Christian Rogg: Asset Portfolios in Africa: Evidence from Rural Ethiopia
12: Ronelle Burger, Frikkie Booysen, Servaas van der Berg, and Michael von Maltitz: Marketable Wealth in a Poor African Country: Using an Index of Consumer Durables to Investigate Wealth Accumulation by Households in Ghana
Part III: The Role of Personal Assets in Economic Development and Performance
13: Patrick Honohan: Household Financial Assets in the Process of Development
14: John Muellbauer: Housing and Personal Wealth in a Global Context
15: Ruslan Yemtsov: Housing Privatization and Household Wealth in Transition
16: James C. MacGee: Land Titles, Credit Markets, and Wealth Distribution
17: Carmen Diana Deere and Cheryl R. Doss: Gender and the Distribution of Wealth in Developing Countries
18: Sangeeta Pratap and Erwan Quintin: The Informal Sector in Developing Countries: Output, Assets, and Employment
Part IV: Who Owns the World?
19: James B. Davies, Susanna Sandström, Anthony Shorrocks, and Edward N. Wolff: The World Distribution of Household Wealth
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