This paper outlines changes that have been made in the 2019 version of the Health Equity and Financial Protection … refinements to the estimation of out-of-pocket expenditures. On the health equity side, the 2019 database includes 198 more data …

widely used operational definition-the growth rate in the average income of the poorest 40 percent of a country's population … social welfare, poverty, inequality, and mobility, and reviews some of its design shortcomings. The paper then looks at …

, examines the role of income inequality for poverty reduction. The analysis finds that the assumption that income is log … highlight the important role income inequality can play in reducing poverty even if prior poverty changes have, in large part … growth in mean incomes and changes in the distribution of relative incomes to reductions in absolute poverty, and, in turn …

sustaining its gains on reducing poverty and enhancing shared prosperity over the next years. It will analyze the dynamics behind … growth and in the reduction of poverty and inequality over the past decade. An assessment of the recent past and current …

Disability and poverty are dynamic and intricately linked phenomena. In developed countries, a large body of empirical … employment and higher unemployment rates, worse living conditions, and higher poverty rates. This study aims to contribute to the … and methods across countries, this study presents a snapshot of economic and poverty situation of working-age persons with …

-led education wave is altering the skill composition of the global labor supply, and impacting income distribution, at the national … of the world population. The findings under alternative assumptions suggest that global income inequality will likely … developing and high income countries. The forthcoming education wave would also minimize, mainly for developing countries …

, both at the extensive and intensive margins. Using rainfall variations as an instrument for household income in rural … bribes, and (ii) among the bribe payers, the poor pay a higher share of their income. The results indicate that progressivity … regressions show that bribes increase with household income, but the Instrumental Variables estimates suggest that the Ordinary …

structural route of the past, through manufacturing, to higher income, but with appropriate investments, they can develop high …

, within 70 countries at various levels of development, there is a positive relationship between income per capita and the … fully accounted for by (a) relatively higher ICT prices in low-income countries and (b) industrial composition …