income of the pensioners fell behind that of workers and relative poverty increased. The analysis shows that the limited … resources of many of the elderly put them close to a socially interesting poverty line. Income inequality among the elderly has … characterized by increased influence from the financial market and extreme economic events - using data from the Household Income …

poverty level, and the health of the population including total health expenditures and the prevalence of HIV/AIDS. The …

examines the effect of credit, insurance, and poverty (defined as more than just low income). It also explains bonded child …

health and poverty in Australian families. Taking advantage of panel data, the modelling approach used in this study allows a … better estimation of the causal relationship between health and poverty. The results indicate that the causality between … health and poverty runs both ways and the relationship is confounded by unobserved heterogeneity. In particular, it is found …

countries. Poor countries spend a much smaller share of national income on health expenditure than do richer countries. What …There are severe inequalities in health in the world, poor health being concentrated amongst poor people in poor … potential lies in political or growth processes that raise this share? This depends upon how effective government health …

This paper exploits a new source of variation in Head Start funding to identify the program’s effects on health and …

Extending the traditional income poverty concept by multidimensional poverty has been of growing interest within the … income, which in particular restricts social participation. The interdependency of the multiple poverty dimensions under a … and income poverty approach. An important dimension would be neglected in the poverty analysis and in targeted poverty …