Italian Abstract: La rilevanza delle statistiche sulla povertà si è accresciuta dopo l'annuncio, nell'aprile del 2013, dei due nuovi obiettivi strategici della Banca Mondiale (BM): ridurre la percentuale di popolazione mondiale in povertà estrema al di sotto del 3 per cento entro il 2030...

Il presente Insight vuole far progredire il dibattito sull’incidenza dell’HIV e dell’AIDS sui bambini in tre modi particolari: (i) focalizzando l’attenzione sulla situazione dei bambini resi orfani dall’AIDS e sui limiti delle attuali risposte per la realizzazione dei loro diritti;...

The release of the World Health Report 2000 has brought to the fore the concept of responsiveness as an indicator of health system performance. Responsiveness relates to a system's ability to respond to the legitimate expectations of potential users about non-health enhancing aspects of care...

Multiple sclerosis (MS) is a chronic, disabling, and progressive illness, representing one of the most common causes of neurological disability in young and middle-aged adults. There is not a definitive treatment for MS yet. However, disease-modifying drugs (DMDs) for MS, which include...

The release of the World Health Report 2000 has brought to the fore the concept of re sponsiveness as an indicat or of health system performance . Responsiveness relat es to a system’s ability to respond to the legitimate expectations of potential users about non - health enhancing aspects of...

The paper analyses the static and dynamic risk of poverty in the enlarged European Union. In the first part of the paper an overview of cross-sectional poverty rates in 25 European Member States (apart from Romania and Bulgaria) using several indexes is presented and assessed. In the second...

The poverty line, which has been set by the World Bank in 1990 at 1.08USD/day PPA contains three major errors: it does not refer to a clear definition of poverty; it uses wrong PPA factors converting national poverty lines and it is based on limited data from two countries with the highest...

We construct a detailed dataset, base on National Accounts, from 1991 to 2012, and the Bank of Italy survey on households in 2010, to measure the global tax burden on households consumer in Italy, distinguishing between direct, indirect taxes and social contributions. Global tax burden is...

The analysis and measurement of poverty is a crucial and unsolved issue in the field of social science. This work aims to measure poverty as a multidimensional notion using a new composite indicator. However, subjective choices as different weighting schemes on the indicator's construction could...