...lysis reports a decline in inequality in health and education in the 1980s and 1990s (Sahn and Younger, 2006), and in sub-Saharan Africa, a fall in educational inequality but little change in health (=-=Sahn and Younger, 2007-=-). But there is greater agreement that people who have not benefited from progress in reaching the first seven MDGs are not randomly distributed within countries – they tend to be female, from ethnic ...