Are women overrepresented among the poor? An analysis of poverty in 10 developing countries

By A. Quisumbing, L. Haddad, C. Peña. 2001

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Subfields: Gender Studies, Safety Research, Sociology and Political Science

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Poverty and productivity in female-headed households in Zimbabwe (2007, background): “Remittances have been identified as particularly important in assuaging femaleheaded households’ vulnerability to poverty (Quisumbing et al., 2001).”
Food Insecurity in Sub-Saharan Africa: New Estimates from Household Expenditure Surveys - (2006, background): “36See Ravallion (2001) and Deaton (2003) for a similar discussion of differences in estimates of poverty from na-”
Mainstreaming informal employment and gender in poverty reduction : a handbook for policy - makers and other stakeholders (2004, methodology): “Additional analysis by IFPRI of a subset of these countries also found ‘weak’ evidence that women as well as households headed by women are over-represented among the poor (Quisumbing et al, 2001).”
The world's most deprived: Characteristics and causes of extreme poverty and hunger (2007, unknown): “To take into account the fact that the cost of living is generally higher in urban than rural areas, mostly due to higher food and housing costs, urban poverty lines are adjusted upward using ratios of the urban to rural poverty lines reported in Ravallion, Chen, and Sangraula (2007). Note that for ”
Rural Women’s Access to Financial Services: Credit, Savings, and Insurance (2014, background): “Similarly, female-headed households in Ghana and Bangladesh were more likely to be asset poor (Quisumbing et al., 2001).”
Gender Inequality in Asset Ownership in Latin America: Female Owners vs Household Heads (2012, methodology): “This paper presents the result of an analysis of the recent household surveys carried out in Latin America and the Caribbean, including the recent Living Standard Measurement Studies (LSMS), to determine the extent to which these currently collect data on individual asset ownership.”
Are Female-Headed Households More Food Insecure? Evidence from Bangladesh (2010, background): “Quisumbing, Haddad, and Peňa (2001), using household survey data set for 10 developing countries, find no statistically significantly higher incidence of poverty among the femaleheaded households in two-thirds of the countries.”