health and survival. But equal rates of growth often deliver unequal rates of poverty reduction and absolute deprivation is … income, indicating the size of survival gains from redistribution in favour of households below the poverty line. The poverty … in poverty on infant survival. We identify a significant within-state relationship which persists conditional upon state …

We revisit the link between poverty, the middle class and institutional outcomes using a newly developed cross …-country panel dataset containing detailed information on the distribution of income and expenditures. When the size of the middle … class increases (measured as the proportion of people with income above 10 US Dollars a day in PPP terms), social policy on …

countries. Poor countries spend a much smaller share of national income on health expenditure than do richer countries. What …There are severe inequalities in health in the world, poor health being concentrated amongst poor people in poor … potential lies in political or growth processes that raise this share? This depends upon how effective government health …

This paper asks what low-income countries can expect from growth in terms of happiness. It interprets the set of … available international evidence pertaining to the relationship between income growth and subjective well-being. Consistent with … the Easterlin paradox, higher income is always associated with higher happiness scores, except in one case: whether growth …

Acemoglu and Johnson (2007) present evidence that improvements in population health do not promote economic growth. We … show that their result depends critically on the assumption that initial health has no causal effect on subsequent economic … growth. We argue that such an effect is likely, primarily because childhood health affects adult productivity. In our …

, and health worker visits in rural India. We estimate the effect of minority representation on the frequency of visits to … villages by health workers by exploiting the state variation in the share of seats reserved for the two groups in state …

public health provision since the costs of poor services in this domain are disproportionately borne by women. Accounting for … are more likely to build public health facilities and encourage antenatal care, institutional delivery and immunization …

agricultural income from the mid-1990s onward. Poverty persists, and tied in part to slow growth in agricultural commodity prices …This paper provides an overview of the evolution of income inequality in China from 1987 to 2002, employing three … is primarily related to the dis-equalizing role of non-agricultural self-employment income and slow growth in …

terms of manual labour. Along with the Scheduled Tribes (STs), the SCs have the highest incidence of poverty in India, with … poverty rates that are much higher than the rest of the population. Since independence, the Indian government has enacted …