Researchers often rely on household survey data to investigate health disparities and the incidence and prevalence of … illness. These self-reported health measures are often biased due to information asymmetry or differences in reference groups …. Using the World Health Organization study on global ageing and adult health, I find that the poor use a different reporting …

use income, health, education, and standard of living to measure the MPI. The MPI headcount declined from 26.9 to 13 …We measure multidimensional poverty in India using National Sample Survey Organization data from 2014-15 to 2017-18. We ….75 per cent over the study period. The all-India estimates indicate that 144 million people were lifted from poverty during …

In this paper, we use the World Income Inequality Database to assess the main trends in inequality within countries … period of time. These trends are complemented with information for inequality in income and wealth from other sources, paying …

Countering recent rises in many countries of inequality in income and wealth is widely recognized as a major … literature by taking stock and providing an overview of current knowledge of the impact of income inequality on three important … outcomes: economic growth, health and education as two dimensions of human development, and governance, with a focus on …

Based on tax records data from Ecuador, we analyse gender differences in top income groups from 2008 to 2017. Ecuador … labour market. While we observe a significant increase in the share of women at the top of the income distribution during … this period, women remain underrepresented in top income groups, at 38.7 per cent in the top 10 per cent income group and …

Health System (particularly the National Health Service), and the reduction of poverty and economic and social inequality. …The central aim of this text is to show the impact institutions have on the performance of the health sector in … Mozambique. The text shows that of the social determinants of health, institutions play a central role in the performance of the …

In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water … end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance. The implication of …

available National Income Dynamics Study data to provide a thorough and up-to-date analysis of poverty dynamics in South Africa … over time. In this paper we show that this dynamic element - the risk of falling into (deeper) poverty and the chances of … between 2008 and 2017. This analysis focuses on the correlates of transitions into and out of poverty, and investigates how …

using a US$4/day line (over and above market income poverty). Net direct taxes are always equalizing and net indirect taxes …Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty … targeted at the rich. While fiscal policy always reduces inequality, this is not the case with poverty. Fiscal policy increases …