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 …

extent of chronic income poverty and chronic material deprivation among this group. The analysis reveals that some European … demographic groups. This paper uses data from European Union Statistics on Income and Living Conditions cross-sectional and … longitudinal surveys and the at-risk-of-poverty or social exclusion framework to analyze recent temporal trends in absolute …

This paper constructs and tests the robustness of consistently measured poverty trends in the Islamic Republic of Iran … after 2008, using international poverty lines based on U.S. dollars at 2011 purchasing power parity. The constructed … estimates reveal three distinct periods of welfare in the Islamic Republic of Iran: increase in poverty and inequality between …

Existing empirical studies on the relation between inequality and growth have been criticized for their focus on income …-often referred to as poverty maps-to estimate a model of rural per capita expenditure growth for Uganda between 1992 and 1999. They …