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 …

Researchers often rely on household survey data to investigate health disparities and the incidence and prevalence of … illness. These self-reported health measures are often biased due to information asymmetry or differences in reference groups …. Using the World Health Organization study on global ageing and adult health, I find that the poor use a different reporting …

standard economic indicators of income/consumption and wealth, the paper briefly reviews distributions of selected non …-monetary indicators, such as education and health. …

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 …

household surveys by combining information on income shares from household surveys and top income shares from tax data. The … methodology relies on a flexible parametric functional form that models the income distribution for each country-year point under … and 42 per cent, depending on the period of analysis, and the assumed level of truncation of the income distribution. …

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 …

contrast to the B40 approach and all conventional poverty lines, inequality lines arise naturally: their location in the income …A major of focus of global development policy is the aim to achieve and sustain income growth of the bottom 40% (B40 … prosperity using 'inequality lines'. Analogous to poverty lines but focused on inequality, inequality lines are benchmark incomes …

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 …