crucial role of labor earnings in poverty and inequality reduction, this report analyzes more deeply LAC's labor markets and …While LAC continues its progress towards becoming a middle-class region, in 2013 poverty reduction was slower than in … financial crisis. Driving the lower gains in shared prosperity and poverty reduction is the region's slowing economic growth …

earnings; and (ii) gender differences in farming activities and outcomes. The role of structural factors such as access to land … development. Progress toward poverty reduction continued in recent years, but the contribution of the agriculture sector was weak … mix that is focused on export crops or other high-value crops have higher productivity and earnings. The productivity of …

monetary poverty between 2005-2016 and 2015-2016. Chapter 3 presents a synthesis of gender and poverty dynamics in Kenya … extent rarely seen in developing countries. Poverty rates declined over the period but remain high by the standards of lower …-middle-income countries. Due to the agricultural sector's heavy dependence on rainfall, poverty reduction accelerated during years of good …

The Poverty and Gender Assessment examines the structural challenges to securing a robust and inclusive recovery from … the pandemic and sustained progress in poverty reduction and gender equality in The Gambia. It leverages a diverse set of … data sources to understand the nature of poverty and household welfare, and highlights constraints to and opportunities for …

Gender gaps in Togo cut across many dimensions. Inequality starts in childhood, when girls are disadvantaged in access …. This background paper to the Poverty and Gender Assessment Togo (2022) highlights the importance of addressing gender … to schooling because of prevalent social norms and gender roles. It continues into adolescence, when a larger share of …

Comparison between Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) and East Asia indicates that gender inequality in education and employment … reducing gender-based asset inequality in SSA is an important development goal. This report documents the structural role of … case that reducing gender inequality would increase growth, efficiency, and welfare. The authors make key recommendations …

vulnerability is simple, and much more informative, and useful than are static poverty measures, provided one has at least two …

the degree of consumption insurance, households'vulnerability to poverty, and household use of formal and informal coping …

elasticity of child labor supply is negative. Previous work has tended to infer from a negative income elasticity that poverty … labor supply curve for boys, consistent with the view that boys work on account of the compulsions of poverty. This is less …, eliminating boys'wage work requires alleviations of the poverty of their households. Trade sanctions or bans on child labor may …