Recent surveys show considerable progress in maternal and child health in Ethiopia. The improvement has been in health … outcomes and health services coverage. The study examines how different groups have fared in this progress. It tracked 11 … health outcome indicators and health interventions related to Millennium Development Goals 1, 4, and 5. These are stunting …

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 …

unanticipated health shocks …

This paper proposes a methodology to approximate individual income distribution dynamics using only time series data on … aggregate moments of the income distribution. Under the assumption that individual incomes follow a lognormal autoregressive … process, this paper shows that the evolution over time of the mean and standard deviation of log income across individuals …

standards over time and space, these results suggest that estimates of the level, location, and change in poverty and inequality …

, by the United Nations in 2015 should strengthen the focus of development interventions and cooperation on the income … growth of the bottom 40 percent of the income distribution (the bottom 40). However, little is known about within …

. However, fiscal policy also increases poverty in three ways: (1) there is a relatively low level of targeted, direct … households would help fiscal policy achieve poverty reduction and even greater inequality reduction. If subsidies on fuel … Transfer program's coverage and benefit levels, the impact of fiscal policy on poverty would likely be muted. In 2015, Zambia …