This paper shows how value judgments can be explicitly recognized in measuring health ineqalities between the poor and … the better-off, and how such inequalities can be included in assessments of countries' health indicators …

health, is concentrated among the worst off. Yet targets are still defined in terms of population averages. Consider, then …

Static and dynamic incidence analysis underscores the importance of Indonesia's public spending on primary health care …

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 …

"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 …