transformed into poverty reduction. The key obstacles preventing large-scale escape from poverty are very high population growth …

grapple with important gender inequalities. This paper examines, first, the evolution and effects of Tanzania's social … protection policies since the 2000s, from the perspective of working-age women. Drawing on a scoping review of diverse evidence … arrangements, significant inequalities in access to social protection persist for women across the formal and informal sectors …

-segregated. Macro-level policies in turn can have differential effects on men and women. Evidence that gender equality is itself a … identifies linkages between gender, economic development, and growth, however. This paper explores the macro effects of gender …, transmitted via the productive sector and in the household, in part due to the tendency for work - paid and unpaid - to be gender …

subsidy program, failed to significantly reduce poverty in Malawi. Official estimates for 2011 showed a 1.7 percentage point … decline in national poverty between 2005 and 2011, while rural poverty increased marginally. In this study we estimate an … alternative set of regional poverty lines using a cost of basic needs method that allows the consumption bundle to vary spatially …

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … ending aid. In light of this, this paper considers two competing perspectives on this changing pattern of global poverty: the … mutually exclusive, is that global poverty is gradually in the process of 'nationalizing', at least in terms of resources …

been strong, yet poverty remains high. Underlying the shortage of good livelihoods and high social inequality is the lack …

indicators that were not affected negatively by the economic crisis were labour earnings, the poverty indices, and household per …

poverty and inequality indicators decreased substantially between 2000 and 2012. The only negative impact of the international …

negatively by the crisis, and labour earnings and poverty indicators had not recovered their pre-crisis levels by 2012. …

employment composition by occupation and position; a substantial fall in labour earnings; and no progress in reducing poverty …