This paper tests using survey data from China whether individual health is associated with income and community …-level income inequality. Although poor health and high inequality are key features of many developing countries, most of the …-reported health status increases with per capita income, but at a decreasing rate. Controlling for per capita income, we find an …

the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves both an indirect channel via the tendency of … high inequality to decrease the rate at which income is transformed to poverty reduction and the tendency of rising … headcount measure of poverty as the dependent variable and the Gini coefficient and PPP-adjusted mean income as explanatory …

This essay aims at a broad, main-stream account of the literature on inequality and poverty measurement in the space of … income and, additionally, deals with measures of disparity and deprivation in the more expanded domain of capabilities and … of income inequality, deals with preliminary concepts and definitions; a visual representation of inequality (the Lorenz …

This paper explores the intergenerational effects of parental health shocks using longitudinal data from the Young … Lives project conducted in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is found that health shocks to poorer parents reduce investments in … children thereby reducing their future earnings, and perpetuating poverty and inequality. The paper discusses important …

in the literature on the relationship between poverty and health in developing countries. We analyse the role public …The interaction between available individual and collective resources in the determination of health is largely ignored … resources play in the perception that rural women in Morocco have of their health. These resources are taken to contribute …