sex in order to analyze the gender of debt and its interplay with caste and poverty, based on descriptive statistics and … women's behavior is constrained by family affiliation, poverty level and caste, all of which affects men much less. Last, in …, likely to strengthen the association between debt and poverty for women, and in particular to exacerbate female …

Despite significant improvement in female schooling over the last two decades, only a small proportion of women in … regression results show that even after accounting for human capital endowments, women are systematically less likely to … participate in paid work than men. Oaxaca decomposition of the gender gap confirms that most of it (i.e. 95%) is unexplained by …

) set out ambitious goals for reducing poverty and sustainably industrializing so that the country can achieve middle … significantly reducing poverty …

There has been a phenomenal global increase in the proportion of women in politics in the last two decades, but there … economic activity in constituencies that elect women and no evidence of negative spillovers to neighbouring male …-led constituencies, consistent with net growth. Probing mechanisms, we find that women legislators are less likely to be criminal and …

measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources the study relies on collective Engel curves …. For the poverty analysis, we propose a fuzzy intrahousehold index which is less sensitive to small changes around the … poverty line compared to standard FGT indices and produce more reliable results. This provides an interesting approach to …

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 …

Reducing gender inequality could increase GDP per capita by more than a fourth in Niger by 2030. These significant … economic gains would be generated by enabling women to have the same earnings as men and reducing fertility and thereby … investments to raise women's participation in the labor force and their productivity at work. While the estimates of the gains …

This study presents an assessment of the role of gender in economic growth in Ghana with emphasis on constraints to … enterprise operations, investment, and growth among women owned firms. Anecdotal evidence suggests that women own up to a third …. In Ghana, women make up about 50.1 percent of the entire labor force and are mostly involved in micro enterprises and the …

selected social inclusion goals; and (iv) model at risk of poverty (AROP) rates at the micro regional level. The report …