existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take … from Bangladesh and Mexico, and use the model estimates to compute poverty rates for men, women, and children. Contrary to …

existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take … from Bangladesh and Mexico, and use the model estimates to compute poverty rates for men, women, and children. Contrary to …

female-headed households are poorer than male-headed households. Poverty is also found to be more prevalent in rural areas …, in households whose heads are illiterate, and in households whose heads work in the informal sector. As for poverty … dynamics, the results show that poverty decreased in Cameroon between 1996 and 2001. Despite the fact that some results are the …

that female-headed households are poorer than male-headed households. Poverty is also found to be more prevalent in rural … areas, in households whose heads are illiterate, and in households whose heads work in the informal sector. As for poverty … dynamics, the results show that poverty increased in Cameroon between 1996 and 2001. Despite the fact that some results are the …

that households headed by women are poorer than those headed by men. Poverty is also found to be more prevalent in rural … areas, in households whose heads are illiterate, and in households whose heads works in the informal sector. As for poverty … dynamics, the results show that poverty increased in Cameroon between 1996 and 2001. Despite the fact that some results are the …

.6 percent should have been 14.3 percent. Indian poverty lines are held constant in real terms and are updated using the food and … non-food components of the official indices weighted by the food shares of households near the poverty line. Because these … weights come from a 1973-4 survey, food is heavily over weighted for the contemporary poor, and the nominal poverty lines are …