In this study attempt has been made to link the gender differences in parental resource allocation in demand for … education at primary, secondary and tertiary level of education to gender differences in returns to education in these …

elasticity of poverty reduction. Growth does reduce poverty, but the author find no evidence for a direct effect of structural …

overall income poverty. However, in a vast country like India, poverty levels vary significantly across the different states …. In this paper, we analyze the differences between poverty at the state and national level, separately for the rural and …

The relation between growth, inequality and poverty is the central theme of the paper. While the fast economic growth … under the neo-liberal policy regime helps reduce poverty, it increases inequality in income distribution in a way that … retards the progress in poverty-reduction. The empirical validity of this proposition is examined by tracing trends in per …

chronic poverty, and thereby, to enhance efforts to respond more effectively to it. The argument in this paper proceeds as … follows. In recognizing that poverty is “multi-dimensionalâ€, today’s dominant policy discourses have actually made …

Is the high degree of gender inequality in developing countries in education, personal autonomy, and more explained by … underdevelopment itself? Or do the societies that are poor today hold certain cultural views that lead to gender inequality? This … article discusses several mechanisms through which, as countries grow, gender gaps narrow. …

Gender discrimination manifests itself as violence in the family, community, and society. It takes the forms of female …