Personal wealth from a global perspective / edited by James B. Davies.

"A study prepared for the World Institute for Development Economics Research of the United Nations University (UNU-WIDER)."

Includes bibliographical references (pages 419-454) and index.

An overview of personal wealth / James B. Davies -- Survey estimates of wealth holdings in OECD countries: evidence on the level and distribution across selected countries / Markus Jäntti, Eva Sierminska -- Long-run changes in the concentration of wealth: an overview of recent findings / Henry Ohlsson, Jesper Raine, Daniel Waldenström -- Concentration among the rich / Anthony B. Atkinson -- Changes in the distribution of wealth in China, 1995-2002 / Shi Li, Renwei Zhao -- The distribution of household wealth in India / S. Subramanian, D. Jayataj -- The evolution of personal wealth in the former Soviet Union and central and eastern Europe / Sergei Guriev, Andrei Rachinsky -- Household wealth in Latin America / Florencia Torche, Seymour Spilerman -- Land reform and land holdings in Brazil / Juliano Assunção -- Estimating the balance sheet of the personal sector in an emerging market country: South Africa, 1975-2005 / Janine Aron, John Muellbauer, Johan Prinslao -- Asset portfolios in Africa: evidence from rural Ethiopia / Christian Rogg -- Marketable wealth in a poor African country: wealth accumulation by households in Ghana / Ronelle Burger ... [and others] -- Household financial assets in the process of development / Patrick Honohan -- Housing and personal wealth in a global context / John Muellbauer -- Housing privatization and household wealth in transition / Ruslan Yemtsov -- Land titles, credit markets, and wealth distributions / James C. MacGee -- Gender and the distribution of wealth in developing countries / Carmen Diana Deere, Cheryl R. Doss -- The informal sector in developing countries: output, assets, and employment / Sangeeta Pratap, Erwan Quintin -- The world distribution of household wealth / James B. Davies ... [and others].