The United Nations Millennium Declaration commits to halving extreme poverty between 2000 and 2015. The South African … government has set a goal of halving poverty by 2014, although the meaning of this goal has not yet been defined. This article … specifies government's stated target of halving poverty by 2014 in terms of specific measures of the poverty gap and poverty …

like South Africa, health inequality by wealth in self-reported health measures appears to be nearly non-existent. We test … hierarchical ordered probit (HOPIT) modeling, we show that a significant and substantial health disadvantage of the poor emerges … after correction. We also address the question whether and how health inequality and reporting heterogeneity are confounded …

state taking child poverty as case of study. I use the LIS Database and cross-nationally compare six countries: Brazil … assess in each country to what extent taxes and government transfers reduce the child poverty generated by the market. I use …: Wave VIII (2010), Wave XIX (2013) and Wave X (2016). I cross-nationally compare the relative child poverty at 40%, 50%, and …

attention to how the prevalence of under-nutrition differs between urban and rural areas and how the drivers of poor nutrition …. Even more important, although under-nutrition retains a strong spatial component, once observable differences in living …

. Even more important, although under-nutrition retains a strong spatial component, once observable differences in living …