contraceptive use is low. Nutritional deficiencies among pregnant women and children are prominent as half of them were moderately … 2012 and contraceptive use is low. Nutritional deficiencies among pregnant women and children are prominent as half of them …

the Maldives to 1.2 billion in India. The economies range from fragile and low-income to middle-income countries. SAR …

Maldives, a middle income country, is on track to meet most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), while gender …

Sri Lanka is an island nation with a population of 20 million. In 2012, per capita income was US $2,923. From 2003 to …

through which voters in more unequal countries re-distribute a greater proportion of income and thus (it is argued), by … the distribution of (pre-tax and transfer) factor income across households, and hence on the exact amount of gain by the … income redistribute more in favor of the poor - even when the analysis controls for the older people's share in total …

Inequality between world citizens in mid-19th century was such that at least a half of it could be explained by income … differences between workers and capital-owners in individual countries. Real income of workers in most countries was similar and …, the situation has changed fundamentally: more than 80 percent of global income differences is due to large gaps in mean …

Suppose that all people in the world are allocated only two characteristics: country where they live and income class …'s global income position (percentile in world income distribution) is explained by only these two pieces of information. Mean … country income (circumstance) explains 60 percent, and income class (both circumstance and effort) 30 percent of global income …

(within-country) inequalities, which are already high, are kept in check. Mean-income convergence would also reduce the huge …