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 …