The health of the world’s population—including those in the poorest countries—has improved more in the past 100 years … that exogenous models of development may still be relevant in explain gains in global health. In this paper, background to … Kenny’s book Getting Better, the authors investigate the cross-country determinants of health improvements and describe the …

This paper documents and describes the evolution of income and consumption inequality in Bolivia between 1999 and 2011 …. We find that income and consumption inequality measured by the Gini in- dex both dropped 22% during the period we analyze …, making Bolivia the top performer in the Latin American region regarding income inequality reduction. To make a more complete …

increase on income inequality; while poverty changes during the 2005-2011 period was the result of both, growth in and … redistribution of per-capita income. On the other hand, poverty reductions in rural areas are mainly explained by the sustained …This paper documents and explains the evolution of monetary poverty in Bolivia during the period 1999-2011. First, we …

nearly on par with middle-income countries. Not surprisingly, the list of laggards largely consists of countries devastated …

middle class either. We define them as the vulnerable “strugglers”, people living in households with daily income per capita … between $4 and $10 (at constant 2005 PPP dollar). They are well above the international poverty line, but still vulnerable to … falling back into poverty and hence not part of the secure middle class. In a first step, we use long-term growth projections …

poverty reduction, this paper shows that by transferring a portion of resource-related government revenues uniformly and … public goods, and thereby reduce poverty and enhance social welfare. We make the case based on theoretical considerations and …