In developing countries, women's decisions concerning their children's health depend on 'empowerment' concerning … poverty measurement. The health of children is a latent variable; their height and weight are observed health indicators. We …

children from Ethiopia, who were surveyed at ages eight, twelve and fifteen. Children's endowment is measured by scores on …

Over the last 35 years, microfinance has been generally regarded as an effective policy tool in the fight against … poverty. Yet, the question of whether access to credit leads to poverty reduction and improved wellbeing remains open. To … address this question, we conduct a systematic review of the quantitative literature of microfinance's impacts in the …

Although microfinance started as a movement to improve women's economic wellbeing through increased female … entrepreneurship in particular, its impact on women's attitudes toward and participation in the labour market is not fully understood …. We fill this gap by combining data on branch locations of the major microfinance institutions in Bangladesh with …

- better cushions the poverty effects of income shocks in a developing economy. We compare the effectiveness of the three … benefit schemes on poverty first conceptually and then by considering two different crisis scenarios, the COVID-19 pandemic … and a hypothetical agricultural shock, in a tax-benefit microsimulation model for Ethiopia. The results suggest that while …

We investigate the causes of the gender disparity in labour market participation in Ethiopia using iterative …, and by age 22 significantly more women than men have completed high school or tertiary education. From an early age, both … women and men undertake a lot of unpaid labour for their households that tends to be highly gendered, and women's work is …

Up-to-date, nationally representative household income/expenditure data are crucial to estimating poverty during the … COVID-19 pandemic and to policy-making more broadly, but South Africa lacks such data. We present new pandemic poverty …-loss-induced poverty: a headcount ratio increase at the upper-bound poverty line of 5.2 percentage points (3.1 million people/13 per cent …

, representing an unfair burden of distress resilience. Informal workers, women, and the urban poor have been disproportionately …

We use a fiscal incidence model based on the South African 2014/15 Living Conditions Survey to simulate the poverty … COVID-19 Social Relief of Distress grant upon its expiry and closing the extreme (food poverty line) poverty gap. Our key … findings are that the introduction of a household-targeted family poverty grant is theoretically able to reduce extreme poverty …