The focus is on the social discrimination trap, which highlights the ways in which men and women’s, girls and boys’ experiences of poverty differ in important ways. It is also discussed how understanding the gender dimensions of chronic poverty is important not only for tackling...

Childhood, adolescence and early adulthood remain for many girls and young women a period of deprivation, danger and vulnerability, resulting in a signifcant lack of agency and critical development defcits. In many cases, overlapping and intersecting experiences of deprivation, foregone human...