Background: Poverty in Korea is not gender neutral. Both male headed and female headed households experience poverty in … distinct ways. This research discusses poverty and how it has evolved in Korea from a gender perspective. Methods: It describes … the characteristics of poverty among the working population based on gender and other household attributes. It measures …

profound social transformative effects. In particular, they can help address enduring economic problems such as poverty and … Transfers ; Public Employment ; Gender Inequality ; Poverty ; Plan Jefes ; Plan Familias ; Argentina …

profound social transformative effects. In particular, they can help address enduring economic problems such as poverty and …

households headed by men. We analyze the determinants of consumption, shock exposure and vulnerability to poverty. Using unique … and less vulnerable to poverty than households with a male head. In Vietnam de jure female-headed households are … consumption poorer and more vulnerable to poverty. In Thailand de jure female-headed households do not differ significantly from …

gender asymmetry in poverty can account for a substantial fraction of these missing women. Using a natural experiment, I link … profile of women's bargaining power and construct relative poverty rates for women. I find that bargaining power declines with … age, and that women's relative poverty rates closely match their higher than expected mortality rates by age. This match …

high degree of social exclusion and multidimensional poverty in the State of Veracruz. In the study area, the 542 … indigenous women benefited in POPMI, presented a condition of multidimensional poverty and a degree of social exclusion: very … multidimensional poverty and very high, medium and high levels of social exclusion have been excluded in the coverage of POPMI …

measurement of poverty. For the estimation of intrahousehold distribution of resources the study relies on collective Engel curves …. For the poverty analysis, we propose a fuzzy intrahousehold index which is less sensitive to small changes around the … poverty line compared to standard FGT indices and produce more reliable results. This provides an interesting approach to …