Showing papers by "Sakiko Fukuda-Parr published in 1999"
TL;DR: The authors proposed an alternative framework of human poverty, focusing not on incomes but on human outcomes in terms of choices and opportunities that a person faces, and used poverty incidence among female-headed households as a measure of feminization of poverty.
Abstract: This paper challenges the use of poverty incidence among female-headed households as a measure of feminization of poverty. It proposes an alternative framework of human poverty, focusing not on incomes but on human outcomes in terms of choices and opportunities that a person faces.
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TL;DR: This article proposed an alternative framework of human poverty, focusing not on incomes but on human outcomes in terms of choices and opportunities that a person faces, and used poverty incidence among female-headed households as a measure of feminization of poverty.
Abstract: This paper challenges the use of poverty incidence among female-headed households as a measure of feminization of poverty. It proposes an alternative framework of human poverty, focusing not on incomes but on human outcomes in terms of choices and opportunities that a person faces.
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