Wu, Ximing; Savvides, Andreas; Stengos, Thanasis - 2008
univariate approaches, we consider income and life expectancy jointly and estimate their bivariate global distribution for 137 … countries during 1970 - 2000. We reach several conclusions: the global joint distribution has evolved from a bimodal into a … unimodal one, the evolution of the health distribution has preceded that of income, global inequality and poverty has decreased …