Emerging market tycoons -- The self-made man -- Globalization and wealth in emerging markets -- Inequality, growth and …

Although it is often argued that wealth inequality matters more for economic growth than income inequality, this … timeframe. Leveraging hitherto unexploited wealth inequality data from the World Inequality Database, covering a panel of 165 … at the top of the distribution and economic growth. A one standard deviation increase in wealth inequality within …

What has happened to inequality between and within countries since 1990? In this paper we explore who have been the … winners and losers from global growth since 1990. We find that falls in total global inequality in the last 30 years are …

Distributional accounts for households enable measurement, study developments andidentify drivers of inequality …. Distributional information on households’ wealth is availablefrom the Household Finance and Consumption Survey only for three points … quarterly distributional national wealth by (i) improving the alignment of surveyfieldwork periods with the national accounts …

The idea that development is mainly about the accumulation of wealth commands widespread support. Dissenters have … introduced other dimensions of development, but nonetheless agree on the centrality and importance of wealth. However, Islam is …

What are the long-term economic effects of a more equal distribution of wealth? We exploit variation in historical … right-shifted skill, income, and wealth distribution. Higher top incomes and top wealth in equal division areas coincide …