Between 2000 and 2013, Latin America has considerably reduced poverty (from 46.3% to 29.7% of the population). In this …, and 14% of those in the middle-class, experience poverty at least once over a ten-year period. Furthermore, chronic … poverty remains widespread (representing 91% and 50% of extreme and moderate poverty respectively). Differences between rural …

research. This paper investigates the choice of seasonal versus longer-term migration on a household level. We use data from …

Mental health of women is often looked at from a biomedical lens. Mental health issues resulting out of globalising … require attention. This article moves away from the mental illness paradigm through which distress of women is usually … understood. With the help of narratives, it seeks to explore the distress of women in the context of the community they live in …

The discussion focusses on women in poverty their concentration in rural and urban areas, and the organisational … approach for their mobilization and empowerment. Maximum emphasis has been placed on the empowerment of women at the grassroots … - namely, to the organisations of poor women in rural and urban areas. [CWDS]. …