Diese Dissertation enthält vier Essays über die Messung und Determinanten von Armut, Gender Gap, Ernährungsunsicherheit …This dissertation includes four essays on the measurement and determinants of poverty, gender gap, food insecurity and … wichtigsten Ergebnisse zusammen. Das erste Papier vergleicht die objektive Einkommensarmut mit einer subjektiven Messung, bei der …

undernutrition: (i) the FAO indicator of undernourishment, (ii) household food consumption surveys, and (iii) childhood … undernutrition is unknown. We discuss strengths and weaknesses of each approach and make concrete suggestions for improvement, which …

This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … that measurement issues related to the way undernourishment and childhood undernutrition is measured might play a … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in …

This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … that measurement issues related to the way undernourishment and childhood undernutrition is measured might play a … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in …

Based on Amartya Sen's groundbreaking work on capabilities and functionings, static poverty measures have long used non …-income indicators. In contrast, measures of poverty dynamics, including chronic poverty, have in general conceptualized poverty only in … limitations of analysing chronic poverty from a non-income perspective. Second, it proposes methods to empirically measure chronic …

contributes to overnutrition among adults, while reducing undernutrition among children. For farm households, supplying …