the cross-country literature on income inequality and growth may have been barking up the wrong tree, and that alternative …

paper also finds a strong and stable correlation between inequality of opportunity and public spending on school education …This paper assesses inequality of opportunity in educational achievement using the Human Opportunity Index methodology … inequality in most of the countries in the sample. Consistent with what has been documented previously in the literature, the …

Brazil's inequalities in welfare and poverty across and within regions can be accounted for by differences in household …

the month of birth and the health outcomes of young children in India. They find that children born during the monsoon … months have lower anthropometric scores compared with children born during the fall and winter months. The authors propose … variations in affecting environmental conditions at the time of birth and determining the health outcomes of young children in …

that foster deep and persistent poverty, such as lack of connectivity to markets, have provided a degree of protection for … schooling of children in poor families. As in other areas of policy, effective responses to a crisis require sound data and must …

This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women … in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would … have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila sector not existed. Of this increase in poverty, 0.35 percentage …

The "developing world's middle class" is defined here as those who are not poor when judged by the median poverty line …-fifths came from Asia, and half from China. Most of the new entrants remained fairly close to poverty, with incomes now bunched up …

child in school. This is particularly the case for rural girls. Nonparametric analysis shows a universal increase in school …, interventions to increase school enrollment should incorporate broad-targeted, demand-side interventions as well as supply …

improving reading tests, choice of reading standards, and how to present the results at the school and individual levels. The …-comprehension relationship depends on the level of fluency, the difficulty of the questions, and social characteristics of the school. The paper …