consumption of housing as a component of personal wealth. The impacts of rates of home ownership, credit market characteristics …Housing is the single most important component of personal wealth in most countries. The special characteristics of … housing markets are therefore key to understanding personal portfolios, saving, the household distribution of wealth, and the …

This study examines the empirical relationship among inequality, poverty and economic growth in India. Using data on … consumption from the 13th to the 53rd Rounds of the National Sample Survey, the author computes, for both rural and urban sectors …, the Gini coefficient and three popular measures of poverty. …

poverty reducti …

Growth and poverty reduction in Africa are weakly linked. This paper argues that the reason is that Africa has failed … to create enough good jobs. Structural transformation?the relative growth of employment in high productivity sectors …

optimal anti-poverty budgetary rules for two kinds of intervention, direct income transfers and wage employment programmes. …