The paper introduces additively decomposable inequality measures and uses the time path of these various components for the analysis of inequality in the UK.
The USAID Famine Early Warning System (FEWS) has been a strong proponent of integrated analysis of geographically referenced socioeconomic and biophysical information. This paper is a representative example of the modeling work pursued by FEWS on the basis of their comprehensive data collection efforts.
This paper reviews several earlier attempts to deal with evaluation of conditional poverty risks, and shows that most of these had been based on misspecified models.
This paper devises a new method for using the information contained in income-generating equations to "account for" or "decompose" the level of income inequality in a country and its change over time.
From 1998 to the present, the Ministry of Health of the Royal Government of Cambodia has conducted an operations research on the feasibility, impact, and cost-effectiveness of government contracting with non-government organizations (NGOs) to deliver health services as an alternative to conventional government provision. The Cambodia case study suggests that government contracting of the provision of health services to nongovernmental entities is not only feasible but can potentially increase the coverage of health services in a short time.
This paper focuses on a specific area of health financing, the allocation of public resources, and the extent to which different approaches enable poor people to access essential services.
This paper implements a methodology to produce disaggregated estimates of inequality in three developing countries: Ecuador, Madagascar and Mozambique.
Benefit incidence analysis is widely used to assess the distributional impact of public spending. This article examines whether this now-standard methodology provides a reliable guide to the distributional impact of public spending reforms.
