Despite some improvements in recent years, poverty and food insecurity remain widespread and the main challenges in … indeed strongly associated with the household per-capita income and expenditure and with various triangulating measures of …

, this paper summarizes research findings on the relationship between urbanization, urban-rural inequality, and poverty, and … provides further empirical evidence on the role of urbanization and government policies in urban poverty. Several conclusions … can be drawn from. First, urbanization has a significant effect on reducing both poverty of rural residents and poverty of …

mothers' economic well-being. Using 25-years of longitudinal data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID) from 1990 to … parenthood is as strongly linked to reduced income as partner absence. Comparing how these different routes to single motherhood … affect economic outcomes, I show that previously married mothers face larger income penalties than those who were single when …