poverty despite striking reductions in absolute poverty. The effects of relative deprivation explain why average happiness has …

barriers to realizing this right. Conventional poverty metrics are designed to adequately capture caloric needs but they are … inadequate for capturing other essential nutritional requirements. We propose national poverty lines based on the cost of a … healthy diet and explore their key metrics such as headcount ratios and the poverty gap. According to these poverty lines 2 …

education and health-care systems work well for most. However, some New Zealanders are stuck on low incomes and face material … to the OECD average but contributed to large increases in income inequality and poverty that have only been partially …. Māori, Pasifika and low-income households have also experienced slower rates of improvement in many health and education …

developed health systems. This paper provides new evidence on the role senior doctors play in determining patient outcomes. I …

Using data from the China Health and Nutrition Survey (CHNS), this study analyses changes in bodyweight (BMI and waist …

The aim of this paper is to analyze the impact of COVID-19 on poverty, underemployment and inequality in Cameroon. Our … Health, and the household survey conducted over the period from March 6 to June 31, 2020. The main results show that COVID-19 … has contributed to increased poverty and underemployment, leading to increased inequality at the household and education …

The paper investigates the relationship between development, as measured by the GNI per capita and lived poverty in … one set of indicators that capture the extension of lived poverty, that is what percentage of the respondents, experiences … deprivation, but we also develop a series of indicators that capture the severity of lived poverty, that is how frequently …

We assess the correlations between mobile banking and inclusive development (poverty and inequality) in 93 developing … findings are established. First, the increased use of mobile phones to pay bills is negatively correlated with: (i) poverty in ….646 and 0.761. Second, the increased use of mobile phones to send/receive money is negatively correlated with: (i) poverty in …

between mobile and inclusive development (quality of growth, poverty and inequality) in 93 developing countries for the year …/receive money is negatively associated with poverty in Asia and Pacific (AP) and Central and Eastern Europe (CEE). Originality …