Gender-poverty-environment links: a focus on the links between gender disparity, poverty and environmental degradation … which relationships between the environment, society and the economy are gendered opens space for new approaches to poverty … in-depth studies in Ethiopia and Ghana to advance understanding of the dynamics underlying negative spirals of poverty …

A Participatory Poverty Assessment (PPA) was undertaken by the World Bank in collaboration with the Government of Kenya … to complement previous statistical studies of poverty in Kenya. While the PPA confirmed many findings of the Welfare … Monitoring Survey (WMS), it also revealed significant new data concerning poverty, female-headed households, access by the poor …

The Bank ' s approach to country poverty assessments (PAs) is increasingly stressing the involvement of stakeholder … other institutional stakeholders in all aspects of the work increases sensitivity to poverty issues, enhances analytical … skills, and builds allegiance to the measures proposed for poverty reduction. In addition, conventional statistical analysis …