growth is analysed by exploring the interrelationship among growth, inequality, and poverty. The present growth spell appears … process. Two alternatives development strategies are described: pro-poor growth and pro-growth poverty reduction. The finding … that high initial poverty incidence acts as a deterrent to subsequent growth is confronted with micro evidence from rural …

welfare indicators, in particular poverty. We also found that horizontal inequality does matter for poverty reduction in Viet … Nam and it needs more attention when designing poverty policies in the future. …

poverty and wellbeing. This framing is reflective of Brazil's national narrative on race relations and the idea that class and … employment status have been the most salient barriers to social welfare protections. Brazil's widely well-regarded anti-poverty … to social policy. But given the strong correlation in Brazil between ethnicity and income, social protection policies …

This paper analyses the effectiveness of tax-benefit systems in reducing poverty and inequality across 13 countries in … sources of disposable income across the income distribution and estimating the contributions of different policy instruments … to poverty and inequality. Additionally, we assess gender disparities in outcomes, quantify the distributional effects of …

-dependent indicators of socioeconomic inequality of health and compare it with a simple ordinary least squares regression. The structural … equation modelling framework, the two-dimensional decomposition integrates the feedback mechanism between health and … modelling approach and its outperformance of ordinary least squares using data from the 2011 Ethiopian Demographic and Health …

inequality. Combining various income and wealth measures with different health measures, we calculate 80 health concentration …We show that the choice of the welfare measure has a substantial impact on the degree of welfare-related health … indices. The influence of the welfare measure is more pronounced when using subjective health measures than when using …

poverty measurement. The health of children is a latent variable; their height and weight are observed health indicators. We …In developing countries, women's decisions concerning their children's health depend on 'empowerment' concerning … apply the 'MIMIC' approach to the 2009 Mozambique Demographic and Health Survey. Children’s health is better when the woman …

We introduce two separate datasets - the Global Consumption Dataset and the Global Income Dataset - containing an … unprecedented portrait of consumption and income of persons over time, within and across countries, around the world. The benchmark … version of the dataset presents estimates in purchasing power parity units of monthly real consumption and income for every …