, administrative tax records, and national account aggregates. It assembles comprehensive data on formal income for high-income … percent of the total income over the period, placing Honduras among the most unequal countries in the world. Undistributed … corporate profits are the overwhelming income source at the very top of the distribution, highlighting its importance in the …

The author addresses two issues. First, how can health inequalities be measured so as to take into account policymakers … information on health inequality be combined with information on the mean of the relevant distribution to obtain an overall … measure of health "achievement?" Applying the approach developed by Wagstaff shows how much worse some countries perform when …

Recent surveys show considerable progress in maternal and child health in Ethiopia. The improvement has been in health … outcomes and health services coverage. The study examines how different groups have fared in this progress. It tracked 11 … health outcome indicators and health interventions related to Millennium Development Goals 1, 4, and 5. These are stunting …

, in a global dataset spanning 118 countries over the past four decades, changes in the share of income of the poorest … quintiles are generally small and uncorrelated with changes in average income. The variation in changes in quintile shares is … variation in income growth in the poorest quintiles. These findings hold across most regions and time periods and when …

underlying the WBG indicator of "shared prosperity", namely income growth of the bottom 40 percent in every country. This paper … show that median income growth of the bottom 40 percent (circa 2005-2010) was 4.2 percent, a high number in comparison to … the 3.1 percent per capita income growth of the overall population. In addition, the low and lower-middle income countries …

The Millennium Development Goal of halving the incidence of extreme poverty from its 1990 level will be achieved in … 2015, and the international development community is now moving to a new goal of “ending extreme poverty.” However, the … countries have zero or only one poverty estimate. This paper refers to such lack of poverty data as “data deprivation,” because …