Acknowledgements
This paper is written while the first author was a consultant
for the hnp/poverty thematic group of the World Bank, Washington DC. We are
grateful to Davidson Gwatkin and Rohini Pande for giving us access to
spreadsheets with the DHS data that are presented in recent World Bank reports
(see Gwatkin DR et al. 2000). In addition to the World Bank data, table 4
includes results of analyses performed by Jennifer McGugins and the first
author. Table 5 presents unpublished results of a recent study that Marian Zuure
performed with Anton Kunst and Eddy van
Doorslaer.