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 …

% 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 …

This paper investigates the impact of parental education on child health outcomes. To identify the causal effect we … leaving age by one year had little effect on the health of their offspring. Schooling did however improve economic … opportunities by reducing financial difficulties among households. We conclude from this that the effects of parental income on …

Rapid urbanization could have positive and negative health effects, such that the net impact on population health is … and individual level longitudinal data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey to estimate the net health impact of … to identify the treatment effect of urbanization on the self-assessed health of individuals. The results reveal important …

death, covering a window of unprecedented size (1912-2000) are merged with historical data on macroeconomic and health …