Countering recent rises in many countries of inequality in income and wealth is widely recognized as a major … literature by taking stock and providing an overview of current knowledge of the impact of income inequality on three important … outcomes: economic growth, health and education as two dimensions of human development, and governance, with a focus on …

Based on tax records data from Ecuador, we analyse gender differences in top income groups from 2008 to 2017. Ecuador … labour market. While we observe a significant increase in the share of women at the top of the income distribution during … this period, women remain underrepresented in top income groups, at 38.7 per cent in the top 10 per cent income group and …

Health System (particularly the National Health Service), and the reduction of poverty and economic and social inequality. …The central aim of this text is to show the impact institutions have on the performance of the health sector in … Mozambique. The text shows that of the social determinants of health, institutions play a central role in the performance of the …

In this paper, we present new projections for a range of global poverty-related Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs …), specifically, extreme monetary poverty, undernutrition, stunting, child mortality, maternal mortality, and access to clean water … end global poverty, and the global poverty-related SDGs will not be met by a considerable distance. The implication of …

using a US$4/day line (over and above market income poverty). Net direct taxes are always equalizing and net indirect taxes …Using comparable fiscal incidence analysis, this paper examines the impact of fiscal policy on inequality and poverty … targeted at the rich. While fiscal policy always reduces inequality, this is not the case with poverty. Fiscal policy increases …

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 …

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 …