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between health inequalities, and health levels. He also suggests that successful anti-inequality policies can be devised, but … that their success cannot be established simply by looking at"headline"health inequality figures, since these reflect the … that can shed light on the impacts of anti-inequality policies on health inequalities: cross-country comparative studies …
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'attitudes toward inequality? The Gini coefficient and the related concentration index embody one particular set of value judgments … inequality be combined with information on the mean of the relevant distribution to obtain an overall measure of health …
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It is acknowledged that the lack of any systematic link between growth and income inequality does not necessarily mean …, and yet experienced smaller annual percentage increases in income inequality. The results suggest that substantial amounts …
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concentration index with a regression framework. They also show how changes in inequality over time, and differences across …. In the case of household consumption, rising inequalities play a part, but more important have been the inequality … unobserved commune-level influences, rising inequality and general improvements seem to have been roughly equally important in …
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While there is a great deal of anecdotal evidence on the economic effects of adverse health shocks, there is relatively little hard empirical evidence. The author builds on recent empirical work to explore in the context of postreform Vietnam two related issues: (1) how far household income and...
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