, 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 …