Guanghua Wan -- Methodological issues -- Poverty mapping with aggregate census data : what is the loss in precision? / Nicholas … Minot and Bob Baulch -- A decomposition analysis of regional poverty in Russia / Stanislav Kolenikov and Anthony Shorrocks …, reform and openness / Ravi Kanbur and Xiaobo Zhang -- Income inequality in rural China : regression-based decomposition using …

, health, leadership and others. The following questions are discussed in the book:. - What has been the evolution of poverty … globalization on poverty and equity, and what are the policy implications of these impacts?. - Is the problem with globalization …: Investment Efficiency and the Distribution of Wealth -- Chapter 5: Gender Equality, Poverty Reduction, and Growth: A Copernican …

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 …

cognitive outcomes in young adult life. Additionally, we find that both early life cognitive ability and health seem to have … cohort members according to their height, which we consider a proxy for health status – shorter individuals show a stronger …