influenced indirectly, through parental investments in education and earnings capacity, whereas the wealth holdings of families …

evolution of wealth inequality in Canada between 1984 and 1999. Our main findings are as follows: 1) Wealth inequality has … increased between 1984 and 1999; 2) the growth in wealth inequality has been associated with substantial declines in real … average and median wealth for recent immigrants and young couples with children; 3) real median wealth and real average wealth …

Five waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), 1985-1989 including both wealth supplements, are used to …

distribution of agents' discount parameters. Degenerate wealth distributions, in which only the most patient agents have any wealth …, are avoided by having a fraction of the agents die each period, and bequeath their wealth to descendants with … agents' stocks of wealth depend on their inherited wealth. If a patient individual lives long enough, she will retire and …

Five waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID), 1985-1989 including both wealth supplements, are used to …

microfinance organizations believed to be among the best in Bolivia. These lenders represent different combinations of …

This report follows up on a 1996 UNDP survey of microfinance activity in Vietnam. The need was not simply because of … the five-year time lapse, but also because the larger multilateral donors were showing interest in funding microfinance … benefit. This report had highlighted a number of problems concerning microfinance in Vietnam. These concerns, however, should …

In developing countries, microfinance has been the darling of the development community, and in developed countries …, microfinance fits well with Third Ways ideas. What are the challenges and opportunities for the attempt to replicate microfinance … for microfinance and drive up costs. With costs well above revenues, U.S. programs are far from achieving financial self …