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Deaton, Angus - In: QA - Rivista dell'Associazione Rossi-Doria (2005) 1

Although we have more data than ever before at our disposal, measuring poverty remains a controversial issue. This paper discusses the ambiguity that arises from using different definitions and data sources in world poverty measurement. It opens with a critical review of the different procedures...

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Adult height and childhood disease

Bozzoli, Carlos; Deaton, Angus; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson … - 2008

, adult height has recently become a focus in understanding the relationship between health and wealth. We investigate the … nutrition and disease is not only responsible for mortality in childhood but also leaves a residue of long-term health risks for …

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Income, Health, and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll

Deaton, Angus - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2008

components of well-being, such as economic status, health, family circumstances, and even human and political rights. Layard …

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Adult height and childhood disease

Bozzoli, Carlos; Deaton, Angus; Quintana-Domeque, Climent - Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson … - 2008

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011150184

Income, Health, and Well-Being around the World: Evidence from the Gallup World Poll

Deaton, Angus - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2008

components of well-being, such as economic status, health, family circumstances, and even human and political rights. Layard …

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Health and Wellbeing in Udaipur and South Africa

Case, Anne - 2011

This paper presents a descriptive account of health and economic status in India and South Africa - countries in very … and reliable relationship between health and wealth between and within our sites in rural Rajasthan, in a shack township … Indians - although their children are no taller at the same age. South African self-assessed physical and mental health is no …

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Height, health, and inequality: the distribution of adult heights in India

Deaton, Angus - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2009

relationship between health and wealth. Here I follow one of the tributaries of this main stream. A relationship between income and … relationships parallel, but are somewhat more concrete than, the various relationships between income inequality and health that …

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Nutrition in India: Facts and Interpretations

Deaton, Angus; Drèze, Jean - Center for Health and Wellbeing, Woodrow Wilson School … - 2008

health environment. If correct, this analysis does not imply that Indians are currently adequately nourished; nothing could …

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Measuring Poverty Among the Elderly

Deaton, Angus; Paxson, Christina - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 1995

Poverty counts are counts of individuals in poverty but are calculated from household or family data on income or expenditure. The transition from one to the other requires assumptions about intrahousehold allocation, about differences in needs across different people, and about the extent of...

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Price indexes, inequality, and the measurement of world poverty

Deaton, Angus - Research Program in Development Studies, Woodrow Wilson … - 2010

I discuss the measurement of world poverty and inequality, with particular attention to the role of PPP price indexes from the International Comparison Project. Global inequality increased with the latest revision of the ICP, and this reduced the global poverty line relative to the US dollar....

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