Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/63356 
Year of Publication: 
2006
Series/Report no.: 
WIDER Research Paper No. 2006/138
Publisher: 
The United Nations University World Institute for Development Economics Research (UNU-WIDER), Helsinki
Abstract: 
The study uses an asset index of consumer durables to track changes in household wealth in Ghana during the recent period of strong growth. Using the Ghana Living Standards Survey of 1998 that contains both wealth data and consumer durable data, the authors demonstrate that the asset index approximate marketable wealth adequately. Although asset index estimates of wealth cannot match the precision of wealth surveys, this approach can provide useful information on marketable wealth in countries where more appropriate sources are not available. The asset index analysis with the three demographic and health surveys for 1993, 1998 and 2003 suggests that the solid economic growth seen over this period has been accompanied by a strong rise in the average asset index scores. – wealth ; Ghana ; asset index
JEL: 
E21
O55
ISBN: 
929190922X
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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