Europe is a continent of cities with a remarkable history of cultural inspiration, wealth creation, social andpolitical … cities that had housed the “engines of the world” and nowhoused some of the greatest concentrations of poverty. The US …

The paper analyses changes in poverty in Britain since 1997. A povertylevel of 60 percent of median equivalised income … Survey, on which government estimatesof Households Below Average Income are based. There was a smallreduction in poverty … poverty are likely to be small. In order to keep on tracktowards the goal of halving child poverty by 2010, further …

The second half of the 1990s has seen substantialchanges in the wealth of Americanhouseholds, primarily owing to …

This study uses two samples of linked adult males to examine wealth accumulation by region and occupation between 1850 … and 1870. Consistent with past research, the findings here show that wealth accumulation was substantial in the South in … the 1850s and stagnant in the 1860s. The findings also suggest improvement in the wealth position of white …

from import duties and direct taxes upon their incomes and wealth. Since total tax revenues depended on rates of tax levied …

We analyze the effect of inequality in the distribution of endowment of a private input (briefly,wealth) that is … isresolved in a decentralized manner, we characterize the optimal second-best distribution of wealth.We show that while effciency …

Market participants' risk attitudes, wealth and portfolio composition influence their positions in apegged foreign …