evidence on income distribution and poverty covers, for the first time, all 30 OECD countries in the mid-2000s, while …. The report provides evidence of a fairly generalised increase in income inequality over the past two decades across the …

health outcomes are a prerequisite to breaking out of the poverty cycle. This book on poverty and health, jointly published …Investment in health is a strategically important and often underestimated component of economic development. This … study sets out a systematic approach to improving health in poor countries. For emerging countries, substantially improved …

This report, part of the “Cities” collection, analyses the spatial distribution of formal enter¬prises and health … the potential for economic development throughout the country. The mapping of health infrastructure shows that border …. The report identifies several regions in which closer co-operation could favour the establishment of cross-border health …

over inequality. It documents how concern over income disparities has risen in OECD countries over the long run. Nowadays …, in most countries a large majority of the population believes that income disparities are too large and that …

The gap between rich and poor keeps widening. Growth, if any, has disproportionally benefited higher income groups … while lower income households have been left behind. This long-run increase in income inequality not only raises social and … the rest of society. Lower income people have been prevented from realising their human capital potential, which is bad …