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 …

The “Palma” is the ratio of national income shares of the top 10 percent of households to the
bottom 40 percent, reflecting Gabriel Palma's observation of the stability of the “middle” 50 …

1 PUTTING THE GINI BACK IN THE BOTTLE? ‘THE PALMA’ AS A POLICY-RELEVANT
MEASURE OF INEQUALITY Alex Cobham and Andy Sumner 1 Page 1 1 PUTTING THE GINI …

The Politics of Jesús is a powerful new biography of Jesus told from the margins. Miguel A.
De La Torre argues that we all create Jesus in our own image, reflecting and reinforcing the …

The rich are different from us; so are the very poor. But in most countries most of us are in the
middle. That leads to problems when you try to measure inequality. Alex Cobham and Andy …

This study analyzed child income poverty in China from 2005 to 2015 using data obtained
from the Chinese General Social Survey. Building on the Foster–Greer–Thorbecke (FGT) …

People and groups go uncounted for reasons of power: those without power are further
marginalized by their exclusion from statistics, while elites and criminals resist the counting …

This chapter argues that the participation of children and their communities should be
central to the implementation of new United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. It …

This article discusses the imperative of a major scaling up of human capital in Africa as a
prerequisite for economic transformation. Sustained economic growth cannot be driven by …

Background To understand the effect of economic growth on health, we investigated the
trend in socio-economic and regional determinants of child health in Mongolia. This Central …