resources. However, the higher the level of women?s individual wealth, the less the characteristics of the community in which … in the literature on the relationship between poverty and health in developing countries. We analyse the role public … resources play in the perception that rural women in Morocco have of their health. These resources are taken to contribute …

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 … consumption of housing as a component of personal wealth. The impacts of rates of home ownership, credit market characteristics …

This paper investigates some major changes in the wealth distribution in China using the data from two national … household surveys conducted in 1995 and 2002. The surveys collected rich information on household wealth and its components …, enabling a detailed analysis of changes in wealth distribution among Chinese households. Our analysis indicates that the wealth …

We provide the first estimate of the level and distribution of global household wealth. Mean assets and debts within … are used to impute values to countries lacking wealth data. Household wealth per adult is US$43,494 in PPP terms, and … wealth for 20 countries, accounting for 59 per cent of the world?s population and, we estimate, 84 per cent of its wealth are …