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The study investigates disparities in social development in 144 countries worldwide. In the paper we aim to investigate cross-country differences in social development level in year 2011, as well as to estimate inequalities on the field. Secondly, we assess relative social development level...
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Poverty – differently defined and measured – still remains one the crucial parts of the world development debate. It … an specific approach to poverty issues, treating low incomes as consequence – not a cause – of poverty. The main target … of the work is twofold. Firstly we aim to develop a new complex measure of relative poverty to set the most recent …
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Existing studies find little connection between living standards and mortality in England, but go back only to the sixteenth century. Using new data on inheritances, we extend estimates of mortality back to the mid-thirteenth century and find, by contrast, that deaths from unfree tenants to the...
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