Researching and reporting on global wealth – an interview with Anthony Shorrocks
Channel: UNU-WIDER
Date: 30/10/2014

Professor Anthony Shorrocks describes the methodology to research global household wealth, developed by him and colleagues when he was Director of UNU-WIDER. The initial 2006 study with its headline that 2% of households owned half of global wealth created such media interest that the UNU-WIDER website crashed twice in one day. Shorrocks goes on to describe further refinements of the work and its development into the annual Global Wealth Report published by Credit Suisse Research Institute.

An interview by Roger Williamson.

00:10  How did you go about researching global household wealth when you were at WIDER?

05:40  How have you developed and applied this methodology in the annual Global Wealth Report?

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