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 …

remarkable increase in per capita income and a decline in the poverty rate from 64 percent at the beginning of reform to 10 … percent in 2004. At the same time, however, different kinds of disparities have increased. Income inequality has risen …, propelled by the rural-urban income gap and by the growing disparity between highly educated urban professionals and the urban …

effectiveness of various interventions. Economic growth can be a powerful instrument of income poverty reduction. This creates a …Poverty reduction has become a fundamental objective of development, and therefore a metric for assessing the … need for meaningful ways of assessing the poverty impact of growth. This paper follows the elasticity approach to propose a …

tax records to construct a complete income distribution. Combining the two data sources is necessary because, on the one … other hand, the opposite is true for the lower end of the income distribution: tax records only include incomes above a … choice of an optimal income threshold b. The Gini coefficient for the population is then computed combining the conditional …

background variable affecting consumption and income in Tanzania. Without appropriate policy actions, there are few chances for … the next generations to spring out of the poverty and inequality lived by their parents, engendering risks of poverty and …

capture different aspects of people's opportunity sets, for which observed income may be a poor proxy. One implication is that … the cross-country literature on income inequality and growth may have been barking up the wrong tree, and that alternative …

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 …

An apparent temporary narrowing of income inequality has been observed during several recent banking crises. But it … the opposite pattern has also been present. Besides, the poor are much less able to absorb a cut in income: safety …