This study explores the relationship between household poverty and depth of informality by proposing a new measure of …

. The paper underscores the principles of the poverty focus of social assistance and presents an overview of existence … evidence of first- and second-order effects of social assistance, particularly in the domains of poverty, education, health and …

Divorce and widowhood followed by remarriage are common for women in Africa. A key question is how such discontinuous … marital trajectories affect women's wellbeing. Women's marital trajectories in Senegal are described and correlated with … widowhood as well as subsequent remarriage is documented. Poorer women are more vulnerable to both dissolution and remarriage …

insurance in the 1990s and the growth of social assistance in the 2000s, and assesses their effects on poverty and inequality …

This study considers how household composition influences the leisure time of men and women in South Africa, using the … highly gendered, with women typically living in larger households and consuming less leisure than men. Regression analysis … household and highlight the lack of intra-household bargaining power for women, providing evidence of gender inequality. Lower …

preference presents a challenge in achieving the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals of 'no poverty', 'good health and …

inefficiency in the use of income at all income levels, even for those in income poverty. It is shown that inefficiency is …

poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic mismanagement have all compromised poverty reduction. In any case …, child poverty has come under increased scrutiny, in part because of the Millennium Development Goals and the growing …