Gender, time use, and poverty: introduction -- Gender and time poverty in sub-Saharan Africa -- A review of empirical … evidence on time use in Africa from UN-sponsored surveys -- Measuring time poverty and analyzing its determinants: concepts and … application to Guinea -- Labor shortages despite underemployment? seasonality in time use in Malawi -- Poverty reduction from full …

The papers in this volume examine the links between gender, time use, and poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa. They … contribute to a broader definition of poverty to include "time poverty," and to a broader definition of work to include household … literature and surveys on time use in Africa, and use tools and approaches drawn from analysis of consumption-based poverty to …

In order to inform discussions on the extent of poverty in a country, it is often useful to compare the country …'s poverty measures to estimates obtained in other countries with similar levels of development within the same region of the … potential gains from such comparisons in terms of realigning a country's poverty estimates and better informing policy choices …

There are often large regional differences in poverty and other social indicators within a country. But geographic … poverty profiles based on household surveys tend to be limited to broad areas because survey sample sizes are too small to … permit analysts to construct valid estimates of poverty at the local level. This issue of Findings looks at another way to …

has translated into substantial poverty reduction according to objective measures based on household survey data. At the … same time, many people do not feel that the poverty situation has been improving in their country or community, and this is … subjective perceptions of poverty trends, and what may explain this divergence: the objective of this note is to document and …