The author addresses two issues. First, how can health inequalities be measured so as to take into account policymakers … information on health inequality be combined with information on the mean of the relevant distribution to obtain an overall … measure of health "achievement?" Applying the approach developed by Wagstaff shows how much worse some countries perform when …

Recent surveys show considerable progress in maternal and child health in Ethiopia. The improvement has been in health … outcomes and health services coverage. The study examines how different groups have fared in this progress. It tracked 11 … health outcome indicators and health interventions related to Millennium Development Goals 1, 4, and 5. These are stunting …

extent of chronic income poverty and chronic material deprivation among this group. The analysis reveals that some European … demographic groups. This paper uses data from European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions cross-sectional and … longitudinal surveys and the at-risk-of-poverty or social exclusion framework to analyze recent temporal trends in absolute …

This paper constructs and tests the robustness of consistently measured poverty trends in the Islamic Republic of Iran … after 2008, using international poverty lines based on U.S. dollars at 2011 purchasing power parity. The constructed … estimates reveal three distinct periods of welfare in the Islamic Republic of Iran: increase in poverty and inequality between …

Existing empirical studies on the relation between inequality and growth have been criticized for their focus on income …-often referred to as poverty maps-to estimate a model of rural per capita expenditure growth for Uganda between 1992 and 1999. They …

poverty in terms of consumption (or income) is the overriding issue in poor countries, and (2) the only thing that really … matters to reducing absolute income poverty is the rate of economic growth. The author takes (1) as given but questions (2 …, influences the extent of poverty today and the prospects for rapid poverty reduction in the future …

poor by this standard. The income poverty rate in 2005 is 10%, implying about 65 million more people living in poverty … implications of the new Purchasing Power Parity (PPP) rate (derived by the ICP) for China's poverty rate (by international … ICP data. Using an international poverty line of USD 1.25 at 2005 PPP, we find a substantially higher poverty rate for …

Workers' remittances have become a major source of income for developing countries. However, little is still known … about their impact on poverty and inequality. Using a large cross-country panel dataset, the authors find that remittances … in Latin American and Caribbean (LAC) countries have increased growth and reduced inequality and poverty. These results …