This paper explores the intergenerational effects of parental health shocks using longitudinal data from the Young … Lives project conducted in Andhra Pradesh, India. It is found that health shocks to poorer parents reduce investments in … children thereby reducing their future earnings, and perpetuating poverty and inequality. The paper discusses important …

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 …

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 …