trends in national income, poverty and public expenditure. Debt Service: An Emerging Problem looks at the growth of external … Commonwealth of Independent States. It contains six articles: Economic Growth, Poverty and Long-Term Disadvantage examines recent …

We study the contribution of health-related behaviors to the health-education gradient by distinguishing between short … behaviors in the health production function. Focusing on self-reported poor health as our health outcome, we find that education … has a protective effect for European males and females aged 50+. We also find that the mediating effects of health …

% of GDP, re-establishes the trend that monetary poverty would have followed in the absence of a crisis and even leads to a … modern health care services. A universal (non-targeted) variant of this transfer policy for 0-5 year-olds has similar results …

range of topics including income and poverty, fertility, infant and adult mortality, enrolment in education and care of …

chapters examine the record of the decade in four key areas affecting human welfare: income inequality and child poverty …, health, education, and child protection. An introductory chapter analyses key economic and demographic trends. In each case …

raising families in a new socio-economic climate. The Report looks at their health, their education, their entry into the …

lives of their nations. It examines the special problems of young people in the area of health and in the labour market. It …

health - the paper also studies the impact of context on risk attitudes, finding a strong but imperfect correlation across …

is affected by the human capital of her colleagues. This is the case for goods such as health, education, legal services …