reductions in education poverty, and to a lesser extent, health poverty. This, too, is a very different result from the income … and 1990s, often dramatically. Further, by decomposing changes in non-income dimensions of poverty into shifts in the mean …This paper uses Demographic and Health Survey data from six Latin American countries to analyze levels and trends of …

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 …

shared benefits for participating countries in such areas as health, education, trade, and infrastructure. …

shared benefits for participating countries in such areas as health, education, trade, and infrastructure. …

confined its attention to income per person, setting aside the question of how income is distributed. But this commission chose … the view that growth only enriches the few, leaving poverty undisturbed and social ills untouched. …

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

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 …

social protection, which can have a potentially significant impact on reducing poverty and vulnerability when implemented …

Two decades ago, 93% of the world’s poor lived in countries officially classified as Low Income (LICs). Now, 72% of the … world’s poor live in Middle Income Countries (MICs). The dramatic shift has been brought about by fast growth in a number of … global poor for many years to come. This “new geography of global poverty”—with the mass of the poor living in stable, non …

around a constant income distribution to illustrate why standard measures of poverty, built on the intuitions of unchanging …This note considers income distribution at two points in time where the population has also changed in some way …