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 …

income mobility in Malaysia in 2004-16. On aggregate, there were large reductions in chronic poverty and increases in …. Further, the poverty and income dynamics differ notably across geographic dimensions. Such disparities are most striking when …This study employs a synthetic panel approach based on nationally representative micro-level data to track poverty and …

Using data from Mexico, the authors study empirically the link between trade policy and individual income risk and the … extent to which this varies across workers of different human capital (education) levels. They use longitudinal income data … on workers to estimate time-varying individual income risk parameters in different manufacturing sectors in Mexico …

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 …