Working Paper

This paper provides a broad picture of national, regional and global trends of inequality in length of life over the period 1950–2015. We use data on life tables from World Population Prospects to develop a comprehensive database of a battery of...

• Inequality
• Lifespan
• Mortality rates

Working Paper

The predominant perception is that the world's food problems are now concentrated in Sub-Saharan Africa. Declining food production and recurrent famine in many African countries are the focal points of much recent work on food problems. This paper...

• Children
• Food security
• Life expectancy

Working Paper

International comparisons of average national incomes omit important information about leisure, home production, health, etc. They are also bedevilled by index number problems. This paper suggests ways of combining working hours and life-expectancy...

• Comparative economics
• Income
• Index numbers (Economics)

Working Paper

Hunger is not a recent phenomenon. Nor is famine. Life has been short and hard in much of the world, most of the time. Both chronic undernourishment and recurrent famines have been among the causal antecedents of the brutishness and brevity of human...

• Life expectancy
• Malnutrition
• Government policy (Poor)

Working Paper

This paper examines the impact of changes in poverty and public health spending on inter-temporal variations in longevity using a unique regional-level dataset that covers 77 regions of Russia over the period 1994-2000. The dynamic panel data model...

• Healthcare
• Life expectancy
• Panel analysis

Working Paper

• Equality and inequality
• Food security
• Life expectancy

Working Paper

For developing and transitional countries we explore trends in rural-urban, intrarural and intraurban inequality of income, poverty risk, health and education. In particular, we ask whether behind generally rising inequality post-1980 lie offsetting...

• Consumption
• Equality and inequality
• Life expectancy

Working Paper

A sharp rise in unemployment and a sharp rise in mortality have been two recurrent aspects of the process of transition. In response to the unemployment challenge transitional economies have equipped themselves with labour market policies (LMPs)...

• Labour policy
• Life expectancy
• Macroeconomics

Blog

by David L. Richards December 2012

David L. Richards Over the past decades, the terms ‘human rights’ and ‘human development’ have been characterized as being: complementary to one...

• Capitalism
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development

Working Paper

I model life expectancy in terms of physical and human capital and technology, the fundamental economic variables described by economic growth theories. For concreteness, the Solow model and a convergence club growth model by Howitt and Mayer (2001)...

• Distribution
• Economic growth
• Health

Working Paper

This paper examines the efficiency of public sector expenditures at achieving social sector outcomes in small island developing states (SIDS). Public sector efficiency is estimated using a stochastic production function (SPF) approach and panel data...

• Education
• Public expenditures
• Life expectancy

Book Chapter

Part of Book Health Inequality and Development

• Equality and inequality
• Health
• Life expectancy

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Health and Development

• Equality and inequality
• Health
• Life expectancy

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Health and Development

• Equality and inequality
• Health
• Infrastructure (Economics)

Journal Article

Part of Journal Special Issue Health and Development

• Equality and inequality
• Health
• Income

Working Paper

This paper primarily focuses on how global funding has supported interventions that have proven to be successful in reducing maternal, newborn, and child mortality around the world. The growth rate of development assistance targeted towards these...

• Children
• Economic assistance and foreign aid
• Economic development projects