environment of stagnant or worsening levels of income poverty. Unfortunately, our results indicate that in the area of health …This paper describes changes over the past 15-20 years in non-income measures of wellbeing—education and health … public spending in the social sector would contribute to declining poverty and inequality in health and education, even in an …

changes uses only one measure of well-being - income or expenditure. Given that poverty is defined by deprivation over …The literature on the contributions to poverty reduction of average improvements in living standards vs. distributional … different dimensions, we explore the role of average improvements and distributional changes in children's health and nutrition …

This study explores global inequality in health status, and decomposes it into within- andbetween-country inequality …. We rely on standardized height indicators as our health indicator sincethey avoid the measurement pitfalls of more … traditional measures of health such as morbidity,mortality and life expectancy. They also avoid measurement problems associated …

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 …