poverty in terms of consumption (or income) is the overriding issue in poor countries, and (2) the only thing that really … matters to reducing absolute income poverty is the rate of economic growth. The author takes (1) as given but questions (2 …, influences the extent of poverty today and the prospects for rapid poverty reduction in the future …

health. For this reason, developing countries often do not have the budget to update their estimates of poverty and health …It is costly to collect the household- and individual-level data that underlies official estimates of poverty and …

This paper looks at differential progress on the health Millennium Development Goals between the poor and better …-off within countries. The findings are based on original analysis of 235 Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator … Cluster Surveys, spanning 64 developing countries over the period 1990-2011. Five health status indicators and seven …

, 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 …

, 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 …

caregiving resources at the maternal, household, and community levels; and access to health services and a safe and hygienic … health has been quite limited; and (ii) provides evidence of significant synergies among adequate food, child care, and … environment and health …

The authors examine the effects of the introduction of Vietnam's health insurance (VHI) program on health outcomes …, health care utilization, and non-medical household consumption. The use of panel data collected before and after the … biases due to inappropriate specification of the outcome regression model. The authors' results suggest that Vietnam's health …

large inequalities in health, are not apparently associated with large inequalities in income, or with small shares of …Inequalities in health have recently started to receive a good deal of attention in the developing world. But how large … inequalities in health across countries. The author explores the reasons for these inter-country differences, and concludes that …