of the gender performance gap. After controlling for business and entrepreneur characteristics, female-owned businesses …-employment raises the gap by 5 percentage points. We then investigate the role of sharing norms and gender-differentiated allocation of … time within the household in the gender performance gap, by estimating their effect on the technical inefficiency of female …

(english) Fiscal constraints and policy changes to improve the effectiveness of programmes in reducing poverty have … gradually led the international community to use tools to reach the poor. Poverty reduction policy targeting is one of them …. This paper reviews targeted poverty alleviation policies in developing countries and seeks to identify the key factors that …

a surge after the devaluation, poverty incidence plummeted slightly. Extreme poverty decreased, and growth has been pro … education, nutrition and health. The high degree of inequality is important for explaining the disappointing results in poverty … reduction. The Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (PRSP) gives priority to investment in education and health supply. In countries …

such biases. As an empirical illustration we use the case of Burkina Faso and the growth incidence curve and poverty change …

Previous poverty assessments for Burkina Faso were biased due to the neglect of some important methodological issues …. This led to the so-called ‘Burkinabè Growth-Poverty-Paradox’, i.e. relatively sustained macro-economic growth, but almost … constant poverty. We estimate that poverty significantly decreased between 1994 and 2003 at least on the national level, i …

(english) Fiscal constraints and policy changes to improve effectiveness of programs in reducing poverty has …. This paper aims at providing a general review of experiences of targeted poverty alleviation policies in developing …