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Will economic growth be sufficient to end global poverty? : new projections of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Yusuf, Arief Anshory; Anna, Zuzy; Komarulzaman, Ahmad; … - 2023
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 and basic sanitation. Our projections, based on...
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Neighbourhood and the perception of the quality of medical treatment
Chugh, Kabir; Gulati, Namrata; Ray, Tridip - In: Arthaniti : journal of economic theory and practice 23 (2024) 2, pp. 202-222
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Inequality of human opportunities in developing Asia
Son, Hyun H. - In: Asian development review 30 (2013) 2, pp. 110-130
This paper analyzes the equity of opportunity in basic education and infrastructure services in seven developing countries, Bangladesh, Bhutan, Indonesia, Pakistan, the Philippines, Sri Lanka, and Viet Nam. The analysis applies a method developed by the World Bank called the Human Opportunity...
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Health and inequality
O'Donnell, Owen; Van Doorslaer, Eddy; Van Ourti, Tom - 2013
We examine the relationship between income and health with the purpose of establishing the extent to which the … distribution of health in a population contributes to income inequality and is itself a product of that inequality. The evidence … supports a significant and substantial impact of ill-health on income mainly operating through employment, although it is …
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A 'Health Kuznets' Curve'? : cross-country and longitudinal evidence
Costa-Font, Joan; Hernandez-Quevedo, Cristina; Sato, Azusa - 2013
The distribution of health inequalities appears to exhibit a different pattern when samples of developing countries are … examined. One explanation is the existence of a health Kuznets ́curve. This paper sets out as an exploratory analysis to test … the latter hypothesis of an inverse U shape pattern between both economic and health development and income inequalities …
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The evolving composition of poverty in middle-income countries : the case of Indonesia, 1991 -2007
Sumner, Andrew - 2012
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Living standards in a modernizing world : a long-run perspective on material well-being and human development
Jong, Herman de - 2014
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Income inequality and health : evidence from developed and developing countries
Herzer, Dierk; Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2014
developing countries. Our empirical analysis challenges the widely held view that inequality matters more for health in richer … countries than for health in poorer countries. Employing panel cointegration and conventional panel regressions, we find that …
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Rising inequality and intergenerational mobility : the role of public investments in human capital (Families, children and human capital formation)
Aizer, Anna - In: CESifo economic studies : CESifo, a joint initiative of … 60 (2014) 2, pp. 280-311
period 2000–2009, I find that increases in spending on health are most strongly associated with reductions in the importance …
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