"there is grave concern that progress made in poverty reduction and women's equality will be reversed. Indeed, for many …Widespread economic recessions and protracted financial crises have been documented as setting back gender equality and … exacerbated effects from other crises manifest in food insecurity, poverty, and increasing inequality. This paper explores both …

-level modeling techniques, this paper explores the macro-level determinants of the gender poverty gap in the ten post …-socialist European Union member states. In dialogue with the literature on the impact of economic development on gender inequality in … Asia and Latin America, we find that fast-paced, foreign capital led economic growth is associated with a larger gender …

promoting economic growth and poverty reduction than either rural feeder roads or irrigation infrastructure. This suggests that …

social cash transfers. The results indicate that Zambian agricultural policies reduce headcount poverty by 3-5 percentage …, poverty reduction with smaller government net expenditure. The results from these simulations suggest that it is feasible to … highlight that the final impacts on poverty and inequality are heterogeneous across population groups. …

of reducing food insecurity and poverty. The result indicates that Botswana, Burkina Faso, Ethiopia, Kenya, Malawi, Mali …

This paper investigates the effects of oil financed public investment on poverty using a dynamic multisectoral general … which favor nontradable activities over export agriculture and manufacturing thereby increasing rural and national poverty … growth, and poverty is less straightforward than simple models of the resource curse suggest. Taking Ghana as a stylized …

Women are more likely than men to work in the informal sector and to drop out of the labor force for a time, such as … productivity, increases women’s vulnerability to income shocks, and impairs their ability to save for old age. Many developing … countries have introduced social protection programs to protect poor people from social and economic risks, but despite women …