poverty rates between female-headed households and male-headed households using the most recent representative household …Gender poverty differences in households are likely to affect female-headed households more than male-headed households …. This paper examined the evolution of the gender poverty rate gap and identified the factors that underlie differences in …

This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …

Relying on the present literature, official statistics, and household survey data in the People's Republic of China …, 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 …

This paper analyses the evolution of consumption poverty in Rwanda between 2001/1 and 2010/11, using three comparable … good quality household surveys analysed along with detailed price data. Rwanda achieved impressive growth over this period …. The first half of the 2000s was associated with slow poverty reduction and an increase in inequality, while in the second …

We provide a method to estimate resource shares - the fraction of total household expenditure allocated to each … household member - using OLS estimation of Engel curves. The method is a linear reframing of the nonlinear model of Dunbar … to data from 12 countries, and investigate resource shares, gender gaps, and poverty at the individual level. We reject …

existing poverty calculations that ignore either intra-household inequality or economies of scale in consumption, ours take … that are common in developing countries. Based on a collective household model, we develop a new methodology to identify … the intra-household allocation of resources and the extent of consumption sharing. We apply our methodology using data …

This paper identifies gaps in availability, access, and quality of household budget surveys in the Middle East and … North Africa region used to measure monetary poverty and evaluates ways to fill these information gaps. Despite improving … public access to household budget surveys, the availability and timeliness of welfare data in the Middle East and North …

household welfare and poverty measures based on the financial concept of risk aversion and the volatility in welfare, measured …Forward-looking poverty analyses are essential for targeting and implementing poverty prevention interventions. In the … presence of uncertainty and risk, the current poverty status of households is not a good indicator of whether they will be poor …

We estimate the effect of mobile money adoption on consumption smoothing, poverty and human capital investments in … intergenerational transmission of poverty. …