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 …

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 …

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 …

, by the United Nations in 2015 should strengthen the focus of development interventions and cooperation on the income … growth of the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution (the bottom 40). However, little is known about within …

. However, fiscal policy also increases poverty in three ways: (1) there is a relatively low level of targeted, direct … households would help fiscal policy achieve poverty reduction and even greater inequality reduction. If subsidies on fuel … Transfer program's coverage and benefit levels, the impact of fiscal policy on poverty would likely be muted. In 2015, Zambia …

redistribute income from the top to the bottom of the income distribution. Direct transfers, especially pensions, are the most … equalizing and pro-poor of the fiscal interventions—direct transfers and direct taxes lower the national poverty headcount by 17 …-inefficient. The analysis points toward possible reforms that would allow reducing poverty and inequality more efficiently …