opportunity costs. Inequality in the access to secondary education is the main cause of persistent poverty in Bangladesh. The …

Official poverty thresholds are based on the implicit assumption that the household with poverty-level income possesses … of the assumption and explored alternative methods to account for time deficits in the measurement of poverty. I … individual approaches. I also propose a two-dimensional, time-income poverty measure that accounts for intrahousehold disparities …

This paper explores the relationship between different levels of education and poverty through an analysis of household … of male and female children. Both poverty and low education have positive but weak effect on child/woman ratio. On the …