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 … compares objective income poverty to a subjective measure where household placed themselves on a ten-step income scale. It …

Poverty and inequality persist in many regions of the developing world. This may be due mainly to an ineffective … targeting of policies to address the root causes of poverty. Sustainable policy interventions are in need of reliable concepts … of poverty and of a thorough understanding of the underlying mechanism that lead to such deprivation. The three essays of …