This paper investigates the changes to health care facilities and the nutritional status of Black children during the first 5 years of democratic rule in South Africa.

This paper analyses India's Food expenditure pattern taking account of regional differences in consumer preferences and prices. The study utilises information on household composition, along with regional prices, to explain differences in Food expenditure. The study reveals regional differences...

Cross country poverty comparisons on unit records have rarely, involved bothy developing and developed countries. The present study attempts to fill this gap by comparing poverty across fourteen nations with diverse economic and demograhpic characteristics and at vastly different stages of...

Notwithstanding serious conceptual problem in its measurement, the equivalence scale is a parameter with considerable policy importance in view of its use in welfare comparisons across households. This paper investigates the sensitivity of the estimated scale to models and commodities.

This study uses Indian unit record data from expenditure and employment surveys, in conjunction with State level indicators, to (a) investigate whether the backward classes and female headed households face higher poverty rates than other, and (b) examine the impact of poverty, along with a host...

This paper compares, using Australian unit record data, income and expenditure inequalities over the period 1975/76 to 1993/94. The study finds inconsistencies between the two inequality movements over much of this period. We, also, observe differences in the nature of income and consumption...

This paper uses data from Peru, Pakistan and Ghana to simultaneously analyse child labour and child schooling, and compares them between these countries. We use a multinomial logit estimation procedure that analyses the participation and non participation of children in schooling and in...

This paper investigates the main determinants of child labour and child schooling in Ghana, with special reference to the interaction between child labour and adult labour markets. This paper proposes a test of the link between household poverty and child labour hours, and provides Ghanian evidence.

This paper reviews the analytical and empirical evidence on certain issues in commodity tax design that have not received much attention. These include the impact on optimal commodity taxes of allowing the following: (i)non linear Engel curves, (ii)Household composition and child subsidy,...

This study investigates the key determinants of child labour hours and child schooling experience paying special attention to the interaction between the two.