"The authors use data from three waves of the India National Family Health Survey to explore the relationship between … the month of birth and the health outcomes of young children in India. They find that children born during the monsoon … variations in affecting environmental conditions at the time of birth and determining the health outcomes of young children in …

standard income-based measures. The results point to the need for caution in analyzing and interpreting self-assessed health …"Can self-assessed health be relied on to identify the true socioeconomic gradients in health status? The self …-assessed health of Russian adults in 2002 shows remarkably little gradient with respect to economic welfare. The authors document this …

strategies and policies. The importance of the underlying poverty and distributional issues creates a need for relevant and … framework for simulating the poverty implications of the Dutch disease, a change in the terms of trade and budgetary policy. The … open economy. It is observed that, while aggregate welfare and poverty effects may be negligible, the structural and …

implications for household income. Their results indicate that the burden of conscription falls disproportionately on the poor … of personal income taxes. "--World Bank web site …

aversion. Illustrations based on data for Indonesia in the 1990s show a strong link between growth and poverty reduction in … that country. A decomposition of the observed poverty outcomes reveals the extent to which changes in inequality have … blunted the poverty impacts of both growth and contraction. Finally, the results also demonstrate that absolute and relative …