This article contributes towards unpacking the relationships between gender, poverty and inequality at several … interrelated levels. It explores the concept of poverty as a useful starting point not only for understanding how gender fits into … it, but also for understanding why gender is not reducible to poverty. It provides a brief history of how poverty came to …

Set within the context of re-conceptualizing poverty to emphasize its multidimensionality, this paper argues for the … physical safety are major concerns for the poor, often dominating their lives to a greater extent than income poverty. However …, the paper also illustrates how violence, security and poverty interrelate in the eyes of the poor, often in causal ways …

its inequality and poverty, and is looking towards the future with greater optimism than in the past. As the region grows …

's largest public employment program, on household consumption and poverty rates in rural India. Combining regionally coded data … opportunities under the scheme have cut poverty during the agricultural lean season by as much as one half while we find no effect …