one gets about trends in the level and inequality of living standards in the UK when using consumption, and when one adds …

The paper describes the issue of the impact of poverty and income inequality on the health of the population using … equity with respect to financing and access is undermined. It is emphasized that reducing poverty and income inequality … health to the disadvantage of the poor, and to changes in impoverishment and income inequality associated with payments for …

per capita incomes, poverty, or inequality. At the macro level this can be seen at the off-setting effects of population … household size on poverty and inequality appears to have fallen in recent years, particularly in rural areas. Thus demographic … poverty reduction. The findings suggest that population dynamics do not appear to be a major driver of changes in growth of …

between 1.5 and 3 percentage points. It could also significantly contribute to improvements in poverty, inequality, education … education, health, and poverty reduction and will make improvements in these areas very difficult. It may also be an important … factor in the increase of inequality. If Uganda began a period of sustained fertility decline, the estimates reviewed here …

In policy discussions, it has frequently been claimed that migrants' remittances could function as a catalyst for … receiver of remittances worldwide. Using the Mexican Family Life Survey panel (MxFLS) for 2002 and 2005, the results from the … fixed effects logit model show that receiving remittances is strongly correlated with the ownership of savings accounts and …

This paper describes the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality and in so doing investigates the …

. Our aim is to describe the transmission of income inequality into consumption inequality. Our framework nests the special …

We employ German Sample Survey Income data to examine income inequality and the financial situation of elderly citizens … with residence in the Old and the New German Laender. Inter-temporal changes in income inequality are also decomposed by … financially better-off compared to retired elderly. For reunified Germany, inequality is astonishingly stable over time, but rises …