inequalityCaribbeanJamaicaAlthough Jamaica has had Structural Adjustment and Standby Loans from the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) since 1977, the implementation of typical structural adju
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Development Relevance:The World Bank Group’s goal of promoting shared prosperity has been defined as fostering income growth of the bottom 40 per cent of the welfare distribution in every country. Income distribution data and the Gini coefficient measure inequality in income or consumption and import...
Development Relevance:The World Bank Group's goal of promoting shared prosperity has been defined as fostering income growth of the bottom 40 per cent of the welfare distribution in every country. Income distribution data and the Gini coefficient measure inequality in income or consumption and importa...
This map shows the degree of inequality in the distribution of family income (Gini index or Gini coefficient) in each country. Income distribution measure the gap between the rich and the poor. In a very uneven income distribution, the rich are VERY
Financial risk protection (FRP), defined as households’ access to needed healthcare services without experiencing undue financial hardship, is a critical health systems target, particularly in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Given the remarkab
The further the concentration curve lies from the diagonal, the greater the degree of inequality in health. The concentration index is measured by twice the area between the concentration curve and the diagonal. It is bounded between −1 and + 1, with 0 representing perfect equality and ±1...
negatively related to prevalence of CVD and hypertension. However it is not clear in lower-middle-income countries8,9,10. The association tended to be positive in some lower-middle-income countries (e.g. Vietnam, South Africa and Serbia) but inverse in others (e.g. Ghana, Jamaica)11,12...
(M = -0.36, SD = 0.83) and lower levels of Table 1 Taxonomy of labour market clusters by national income More Equal ¬ Labour Market ® Less Equal Middle- Residual Income Emerging Informal The Bahamas, Croatia, Czech Rep, Hong Kong, Hungary, Jamaica, Korea Rep, Latvia, Lithuania, ...
The study was conducted in Salvador, northeastern Brazil, with a population of approximately 2.5 million people, of which about 300,000 children under five years [27]. Salvador has a high degree of social inequality, but over 95% of the households are connected with piped water and a large ...