perspective of an interdependent relation of the polarization dimensions income and wealth, the extent of multidimensional poverty …Income and wealth are important determinants of individual economic well-being because they are a fundamental resource … for consumption. Due to increasing inequality the distribution of income and wealth has moved more and more into the focus …

the assessment of poverty and wealth in affluent countries in general from a CA perspective. Third, we show how this … and nonfinancial issues of poverty and wealth within this integrative framework. …

The Capability Approach has been adopted as a theoretical framework for official Poverty and Wealth Reports by the … contents of the recent 3rd Poverty and Wealth Report. We also explain why the extension of the Capability Approach from poverty … to wealth issues in German reports may be promising also for analyses of capability deprivation in general. Finally, we …

Ghana’s tax reforms constitute the major policy instrument needed to accelerate growth and poverty reduction. Over the … significantly reduce poverty. The critical issue has been how to generate the needed resources domestically, using tax instruments … the tax system in Ghana over the last two decades and suggests ways to improve tax administration in the country. …

poverty reduction; and second, that savings do Granger-cause poverty reduction in Ghana. Also, the effect of financial sector … development on poverty reduction is positive but insignificant. This is due to the fact that financial intermediaries in Ghana …The paper primarily investigates the interrelationship between financial sector development and poverty reduction in …

There is evidence that women are more likely to live in poverty than men. Given the fact that the poor are more likely … to use welfare, it becomes useful to consider welfare usage among women. A-priori welfare programs are set up in such a … possibility among women and investigate if race/ethnicity and birthplace still have a role to play in the decision to use welfare …

This is a brief sketch of the Self Employed Women’s Association’s (SEWA) threedecade- long journey from the local to … global and informal to formal sector in search of finding work and income for now 720,000 women workers. Though SEWA remains …

International and national investors are often exposed to real wealth risks, stemming from volatile asset prices and …, price level and futures price and hence real wealth is stochastic. For a risk averse investor, optimal consumption and …

between initial wealth and entrepreneurship. However, in a recent paper Hurst and Lusardi (2004) use higher order of … polynomials in wealth and find that there is no relationship between household initial wealth and the probability of starting an … own business throughout most of the wealth distribution in the United States. In this paper we examine this relationship …