This paper is a review of the post-war literature on income distribution and development. It argues that the literature …

Good maternal health is of fundamental importance to a country’s well-being and ability to prosper, and there are few … times when maternal health is more at risk than in the period surrounding childbirth. Protecting the health of mothers … during reproduction safeguards their future contributions to society and ensures the health and productivity of future …

education poverty, and to a lesser extent, health poverty. This, too, is a very different result from the income inequality …, often dramatically. Further, by decomposing changes in non-income dimensions of poverty into shifts in the mean and changes …This paper uses Demographic and Health Survey data from six Latin American countries to analyze levels and trends of …

environment of stagnant or worsening levels of income poverty. Unfortunately, our results indicate that in the area of health …This paper describes changes over the past 15-20 years in non-income measures of wellbeing—education and health … public spending in the social sector would contribute to declining poverty and inequality in health and education, even in an …