There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money …-metric measures) do not take into account out of pocket payments of health care. Significant household health spending would … overestimate total household expenditure, which results in an underestimation of poverty measured in terms of household expenditure …

expenditures in education, health, and infrastructure on economic growth, poverty, and income distribution in the past 20 years …. Notwithstanding the advances experienced on reducing poverty, lowering inequality and unemployment continue to be elusive targets for …

explicitly focused on poverty reduction and are controlled locally, and those that have very broad coverage …

study of education expenditure in Kenya, we show that our understanding of the distributional implications of public …

The world has enjoyed huge improvements in population health during the last half century. But major health problems … deal with noncommunicable diseases. Several classic arguments for public spending on health have buttressed governments …’ efforts to improve health. These efforts have now been further spurred by new economic arguments that better population health …