Showing 1 - 10 of 62
The 2010 Report continues the tradition of pushing the frontiers of development thinking. For the first time since 1990, the Report looks back rigorously at the past several decades and identifies often surprising trends and patterns with important lessons for the future. These varied pathways...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008837640
health, education, employment, income and expenditure, housing, access to public facilities and services, social capital and … also in terms of non-traditional measures, such as self-rated poverty and happiness. The BLSS 2012, together with the BLSS …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011254939
This study examines ethnic based differences in economic and health status. We combine existing literature with our … analysis of data from the Canadian Census and National Population Health Survey. If a given sub-topic is well researched, we …-differentiated. Yet recent immigrants, especially from Asia, are advantaged in health outcomes compared to Canadian-born persons – the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763261
Income Dynamics, we study the health transitions for those who were in good health in the first year, focussing especially on … income and education. The initial good health restriction removes from the sample those whose incomes may have been affected … -- that changes in health status over the subsequent two years are related in particular to income and education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763293
Income Dynamics, we study the health transitions for those who were in good health in the first year, focussing especially on … income and education. The initial good health restriction removes from the sample those whose incomes may have been affected … that changes in health status over the subsequent two years are related in particular to income and education. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005763392
This paper tests using survey data from China whether individual health is associated with income and community …-level income inequality. Although poor health and high inequality are key features of many developing countries, most of the …-reported health status increases with per capita income, but at a decreasing rate. Controlling for per capita income, we find an …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059961
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005001310
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059784
several of the goals. But many countries, most especially in Africa, will not. The projections show that poverty will become … more heavily concentrated in Africa in both relative and absolute terms. In addition, whilst urban poverty will increase …, in 2015 poverty will remain a predominately rural phenomenon, with 60-70 per cent of the poor (depending on the measure …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005059849
in the literature on the relationship between poverty and health in developing countries. We analyse the role public …The interaction between available individual and collective resources in the determination of health is largely ignored … resources play in the perception that rural women in Morocco have of their health. These resources are taken to contribute …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005033203