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 …

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 …

This dissertation focuses on the relationship between gender equality and economic development, broadly defined. Since … the seminal work of Ester Boserup (1970), gender equality is widely understood as being both an instrument for and a … the consequences of gender inequality for economic development? (Chapter 1.) And what are its causes—i.e., why do we …