public service provision for the poor and for women, it is important to know to what extent these groups use their vote to … literate and urban citizens. The data also suggest that women, very poor citizens, and rural citizens are more inclined to use … among women. However, there were considerable administrative obstacles for citizens to vote, such as a lack of identity …

effects. It is followed by a discussion on levels of poverty (...). The analysis brings forward a bleak picture of stagnant … economic growth in the 1990s, rising poverty levels and chronic plight of womenfolk in the society. A situation analysis of the … role of formal and informal finance in the pursuit of poverty alleviation shows the bias of the formal finance towards the …