the field of law and poverty. Using gender as the lens through which to view a late 20th century version of social … contract theory, the Paper discusses how blindness toward gender consequences of social policy and legal rules: (i) obscures … the roots of poverty that are in part constructed by common law background legal rules of property, contract, tort, and …

This study investigates on Pakistani and South African data gender issues in household behavior.A test for gender bias ….Widowhood poverty is no greater than that overall,but the picture changes dramatically if we allow economies of household size …

poverty compels work whereas a positive wage elasticity would favour the alternative view that children work because the … boys, consistent with the view that boys work on account of the compulsions of poverty. This is less clear in the case of … requires alleviation of the poverty of their households. Trade sanctions or bans on child labour may have deleterious …