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Are Estimates of Socioeconomic Inequalities in Chronic Disease Artefactually Narrowed by Self-Reported Measures of Prevalence in Low-Income and Middle-Income Countries? Findings fr...
Vellakkal, Sukumar; Millett, Christopher; Basu, Sanjay; … - 2015
-representative data sets of the WHO Study of Global Ageing and Adult Health (SAGE), 2007-2010 (n=42,464), we calculated wealth-related and …
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Chapter 8. Post-1970 Trends in Within-Country Inequality and Poverty : Rich and Middle-Income Countries
Morelli, Salvatore; Smeeding, Timothy; Thompson, Jeffrey - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 2, (pp. 593-696). 2015
each of these areas, as well as an integrated discussion of empirical choices made in the measurement of poverty, overall …
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Measuring health equity in small areas : findings from demographic surveillance systems
2005
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Measuring health equity in small areas : findings from demographic surveillance systems
2005
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Performance and Inequality in Health : A Comparison of Child and Maternal Health Across Asia
Apouey, Benedicte - 2016
A country's performance in health attainment refers to both its achievement (level) and its improvement (evolution) in … the health domain. Studies on performance generally measure health attainment using the average health level of the … population, and quantify health improvement employing the change in attainment over time. However this approach is flawed because …
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A human development index by internal migrational status
Harttgen, Kenneth; Klasen, Stephan - 2009
Migration continues to be a very important income diversification strategy, especially for poor populations in developing countries. However, while there has been much analysis on the economic consequences of migration for migrants and the receiving regions, whether internal migration improves...
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How is social inequality maintained in the Global South? : critiquing the concept of dirty work
Zulfiqar, Ghazal Mir; Prasad, Ajnesh - In: Human relations : towards the integration of the social … 75 (2022) 11, pp. 2160-2186
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Chapter 13 Income distribution and development
Kanbur, Ravi - In: Handbook of income distribution : volume 1, (pp. 791-841). 2000
This paper is a review of the post-war literature on income distribution and development. It argues that the literature has cycled from one consensus to another, responding to emerging policy issues and new analysis. On the basis of the review, the paper identifies five areas that will command...
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The consequences of the value-added tax on inequality
Alavuotunki, Kaisa; Pirttilä, Jukka - 2015
The adoption of the value-added tax has arguably been one of the most important tax policy measures worldwide, but is also one of the most heatedly debated. While some argue that the VAT has served as a useful tool to boost government revenue, others claim that it is also a regressive tax,...
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The consequences of the value-added tax on inequality
Alavuotunki, Kaisa; Haapanen, Mika; Pirttilä, Jukka - 2017
This paper examines the impact of the introduction of the value-added tax on inequality and government revenues using newly released macro data. We present both conventional county fixed effect regressions and instrumental variable analyses, where VAT adoption is instrumented using the previous...
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