Publisher Summary This chapter reviews recent advances in the empirical literature on the
role that households and families play in investing in human resources. It describes the …

Effective health care interventions are underutilized in the develo** world, and income-
related disparities in use are large. The evidence concerning this access problem is …

The connections between economic growth (EG) and human development (HD) form two
chains. Crosscountry regressions show a significant relationship in both directions, with …

Inequalities across the income distribution in a variable y can be decomposed into their
causes, and changes in inequality in y can be decomposed into the effects of changes in the …

Poverty and ill-health are intertwined. Poor countries tend to have worse health outcomes
than better-off countries. Within countries, poor people have worse health outcomes than …

We consider an asset‐based alternative to the standard use of expenditures in defining well‐
being and poverty. Our motivation is to see if there exist simpler and less demanding ways to …

Conflict between and within countries can have lasting health and economic consequences,
but identifying such effects can be empirically challenging. This paper uses household …

Publisher Summary The structure, efficiency, and growth of production affect (and are
affected by) the distribution of consumption. Poverty analysis has three tasks:(1) to define …

Gaps in child mortality between rich and poor countries are unacceptably wide and in some
areas are becoming wider, as are the gaps between wealthy and poor children within most …

The new updated edition of Children, Youth and Development explores the varied ways in
which global processes in the form of development policies, economic and cultural …