There is world-wide convergence in life expectancy, despite little convergence in GDP per capita. If one values longer … life much more than material happiness, the world living standards may this have already converged substantially. This … among countries. A conventional GDP-based measure remains a good approximation for (non) convergence in world living …

Report (WDR) of 1993, the world now has the unique opportunity to achieve a grand convergence in global mortality within a …The grand challenge in global health is the inequality in mortality and life expectancy between countries and within … countries. According to Global Health 2035, the Lancet Commission celebrating the 20th anniversary of the World Development …

epidemic ("AIDS-scenario"). The other is based on hypothetical values based on estimations where the mortality caused by the …

There is world-wide convergence in life expectancy, despite little convergence in GDP per capita. If one values longer … life much more than material happiness, the world living standards may this have already converged substantially. This … among countries. A conventional GDP-based measure remains a good approximation for (non) convergence in world living …

inequality across and within countries. The paper explores the causes of such trends on the basis of five main mortality models … world if the determinants of health had continued developing over these decades as they did over 1960-80. The results …

mortality rates as indicators for the health status and analyse the convergence/divergence of overall mortality for (i) the … whole population, for (ii) females, for (iii) males and for (iv) the gender gap in overall mortality. Convergence … Concordance) are used to test for absolute and conditional beta-convergence in mortality. We find mixed results for the inequality …