The paper describes the issue of the impact of poverty and income inequality on the health of the population using … equity with respect to financing and access is undermined. It is emphasized that reducing poverty and income inequality …

services sector is split up into formal and informal activities to account for the fact that poverty is largely confined to the …

, there is little reliable evidence on how the inclusion of such non-cash income actually affects poverty and inequality … and poverty rates by almost one-third. However, adjusting for differences in needs for public services across population … subgroups offsets about half the inequality reduction and some of the poverty decrease. …

poverty module (GlobPov), we assess the implication of the IPCC SRES scenarios on global poverty and inequality. We find that … global poverty and inequality measures are sensitive to the downscaling methodology used. Our results show that future … economic growth is crucial for poverty reduction. Higher per capita incomes tend to favour poverty reduction, while higher …

Poverty Impact Analysis in individual countries. The model combines the optimizing behavior of CGE models with the asset …

. Doch schrumpft die Mittelschicht aufgrund einer Polarisierung der Einkommensverteilung wirklich? Während empirische Studien …. A selection of polarization indices are presented for different poverty and affluence thresholds based on net household …) show an increase in income polarization since the late nineties independent of the choice of poverty and affluence …

, distribution and poverty using a CGE-microsimulation approach wherein the representative household assumption in the traditional …

countries with respect to poverty reduction, the distribution of income within countries, the distribution of income between …