nutrition remains a problem in rural areas across Southeast Asia despite achievements in poverty alleviation. Results reveal …Success in reducing monetary poverty in Southeast Asia has not fully translated into reduction in malnutrition. Using a … poverty and nutritional outcomes of children under five. Furthermore, we compare nutritional outcomes of children below five …

Various challenges are thought to render female-headed households (FHHs) vulnerable to poverty in the Arab region. Yet …, previous studies have mixed results and the absence of household panel survey data hinders analysis of poverty dynamics. We … Tunisia. We find that the definition of FHHs matters for measuring poverty levels and dynamics. Most types of FHHs are less …

Various challenges are thought to render female-headed households (FHHs) vulnerable to poverty in the Arab region. Yet … data hinders analysis of poverty dynamics. We address these challenges by proposing a novel typology of FHHs and analyze …, Iraq, Jordan, Mauritania, Palestine, and Tunisia. We find that the definition of FHHs matters for measuring poverty levels …

poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the labour market for the work they do, so that they can buy the goods and … services they need to move up out of poverty. …

engaging children in child labour, can lock households in a low-income equilibrium or poverty trap. Provided that covariate …

poverty levels and a widening rural-urban gap. …This paper provides an account of the evolution of poverty and inequality during adjustment in Bolivia, covering the … period 1985?99. It turns out that urban poverty declined somewhat after the initial stabilization phase that followed the …

traditional notion of income mobility as well as for mobility around extreme and moderate poverty lines. The estimates suggest … determinants of changes in poverty incidence within cohorts revealed statistically significant roles for age, gender and education … poverty. …

This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in …