persistent socioeconomic problems such as poverty and gender disparity. Women - by far the largest group of program beneficiaries … to empower and undermine prevailing structures that produce and reproduce poverty and gender disparities. Because the … remedies some of the most entrenched and resilient causes of poverty and gender inequality. The paper examines survey evidence …

The analysis and measurement of poverty is a crucial and unsolved issue in the field of social science. This work aims … to measure poverty as a multidimensional notion using a new composite indicator. However, subjective choices as different … model of poverty we have identified, considering various factors as weightings. Methodologically speaking, it is proposed an …

the world's richest 1 per cent, while just a modest amount of redistribution would have ended $2 poverty. If the share of … just 12 per cent, this would have been sufficient to end $2 poverty today. Persistence of global poverty, it seems, is not …

We examine vulnerability to poverty in Tajikistan during the global financial crisis, focusing on the roles played by … to estimate a Markov transition probability matrix with the aim of identifying the vulnerability of households to poverty …. Importantly, by introducing the index of vulnerability as the weighted probability of a household falling into poverty over a …

Research into multidimensional poverty has gathered momentum in the last half decade, most notably in the aftermath of … policy instruments. Multidimensional poverty theories have been vigorously advocated by some of the most thoughtful and hard …-working economists. The Alkire-Foster Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) measures overlapping multiple deprivations that people face …

The study examines the nature and extent of time poverty experienced by men and women in subsistence households in …% of men face time constraints. Women's time poverty worsens when the burden of simultaneous care work is taken into … determinants of time poverty show that measures of bargaining power like assets and education do not necessarily affect time …

positive average effects on employment, earnings, and income, and generally negative effects on poverty rates, although the …

traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and, to a …