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Real property
Working Paper
The end of Londongrad? The impact of beneficial ownership transparency on offshore investment in UK property

The United Kingdom’s (UK) property markets are thought to be a common destination for corrupt and criminal assets and money laundering, with investment often through offshore shell companies...

Money laundering Real property Ownership
Journal Special Issue
Land and Property Rights

This special issue of the Journal of Development Economics originates from a UNU-WIDER research project on land inequality and decentralized governance in LDCs...

Economic development Land tenure Land use
Working Paper
The Legacy Effect of Squatter Settlements on Urban Redevelopment

The paper presents a theoretical model that seeks to answer the question of why former squatter settlements tend to upgrade/redevelop at a slower pace than otherwise similar settlements originating in the formal sector...

Econometrics Institutional economics Land use
Book Chapter
The Distribution of Household Wealth in India

From the book: Personal Wealth from a Global Perspective

Equality and inequality Households Land tenure
Book Chapter
Household Wealth in Latin America

From the book: Personal Wealth from a Global Perspective

Families Income distribution Informal sector
Working Paper
The Distribution of Household Wealth in India

This paper reviews the principal source of India’s wealth distribution statistics, which is constituted by the five decennial Reserve Bank of India National Sample Survey Organization Surveys on Debt and Investment of 1961-62, 1971-72, 1981-82,...

Equality and inequality Households Land tenure
Working Paper
Household Wealth in Latin America

This paper provides a descriptive analysis of wealth ownership and wealth inequality in Latin American countries, using diverse published sources and primary data analysis for 16 nations...

Families Income distribution Informal sector
Working Paper
The Distribution of Assets in Transitional Economies

An equal distribution of assets is a crucial element in the process of economic transition from plan to market. In the socialist era most physical assets were owned by the state and private ownership was not very important for most individuals...

Capital Equality and inequality Poverty
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