The empirical analysis of poverty over time is still severely constrained by the available survey data in developing countries. In the past, this has led to a neglect of certain aspects of poverty dynamics or even biased assessments of poverty dynamics. This book explicitly takes into account...

This chapter provides a discussion on the concept of spatial inequality from a multidimensional perspective. The idea put forth is to emphasize the interconnection between an unfair outcome distribution and its individual variation at the local level. The additional information on the spatial...

This paper presents the first cross-country estimation of needs-adjusted income and education-related inequalities in the use of a whole set of preventive care treatments. Analysis is based on the first three waves of the Survey of Health, Ageing and Retirement (SHARE) for individuals aged 50...