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 …

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 …

, by the United Nations in 2015 should strengthen the focus of development interventions and cooperation on the income … growth of the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution (the bottom 40). However, little is known about within …

. However, fiscal policy also increases poverty in three ways: (1) there is a relatively low level of targeted, direct … households would help fiscal policy achieve poverty reduction and even greater inequality reduction. If subsidies on fuel … Transfer program's coverage and benefit levels, the impact of fiscal policy on poverty would likely be muted. In 2015, Zambia …

This paper describes the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty, and examines recent policy changes and … reduce poverty, especially for families with children and retirees. Beginning in the second decile, households are net payers … of lower value-added taxes on electricity and utility bills is expected to be slightly poverty reducing, this effect is …

This paper proposes a methodology to approximate individual income distribution dynamics using only time series data on … aggregate moments of the income distribution. Under the assumption that individual incomes follow a lognormal autoregressive … process, this paper shows that the evolution over time of the mean and standard deviation of log income across individuals …

, although social contributions are unequalizing and poverty-increasing, direct taxes on personal income are equalizing and … policy in Chile in 2013. Four results are indicative of an overall positive net effect of fiscal interventions on poverty and … inequality. First, subsidies exert a positive, yet modest effect on poverty and inequality, whereas direct transfers are …

underlying the WBG indicator of "shared prosperity", namely income growth of the bottom 40 percent in every country. This paper … show that median income growth of the bottom 40 percent (circa 2005-2010) was 4.2 percent, a high number in comparison to … the 3.1 percent per capita income growth of the overall population. In addition, the low and lower-middle income countries …

The Millennium Development Goal of halving the incidence of extreme poverty from its 1990 level will be achieved in … 2015, and the international development community is now moving to a new goal of “ending extreme poverty.” However, the … countries have zero or only one poverty estimate. This paper refers to such lack of poverty data as “data deprivation,” because …