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Gender, Growth, and Poverty Reduction

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dc.contributor.authorBlackden, C. Mark
dc.date.accessioned2012-08-13T09:45:49Z
dc.date.available2012-08-13T09:45:49Z
dc.date.issued1999-02
dc.description.abstractThis note focuses on the core findings, and recommendations of the 1998 status report on poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA), prepared for the Special Program for Assistance for Africa (SPA), a thematic examination of the linkages between gender, growth, and poverty reduction in SSA. Primarily focused on agriculture, and the rural sector, the report argues that one of the factors constraining growth, and poverty in SSA is gender inequality in the access to, and control of a diverse range of assets. The note reviews the determinants of growth, and the interdependence of the market, and household economies, where much of women's productive work is unrecorded, (in Kenya, about sixty percent of female activities are unaccounted for, compared with only twenty four percent of male activities). Furthermore, micro-level analyses portray a consistent picture of gender-based asset inequality, pointing at patterns of disadvantage faced by women, in accessing the basic assets, and resources required for a full participation in SSA's growth potential. In education, although girls have made rapid strides in completing primary education, lowering the gender gap, differentials persist due to social, and cultural factors; and, in health, an enormous gender differential in the region's sexual, and reproductive burden of disease, is observed, as measured by deaths, and disability-adjusted life years. Recommendations include women's budget initiatives, sustained investments in education/health, and, raising the visibility of domestic work in national statistics.en
dc.identifierhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1999/02/1121201/gender-growth-poverty-reduction
dc.identifier.doi10.1596/9873
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10986/9873
dc.languageEnglish
dc.publisherWorld Bank, Washington, DC
dc.relation.ispartofseriesAfrica Region Findings & Good Practice Infobriefs; No. 129
dc.rightsCC BY 3.0 IGO
dc.rights.holderWorld Bank
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo
dc.subjectAGED
dc.subjectAGRICULTURE
dc.subjectCAPITA GROWTH
dc.subjectCASE STUDIES
dc.subjectCASE STUDY
dc.subjectCIVIL SOCIETY
dc.subjectCROPS
dc.subjectECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectEMPLOYMENT
dc.subjectEQUALITY
dc.subjectEXTENSION
dc.subjectFARMERS
dc.subjectFEMALES
dc.subjectFINANCIAL SERVICES
dc.subjectFOOD POLICY RESEARCH
dc.subjectFOOD STORAGE
dc.subjectGENDER
dc.subjectGENDER DISPARITIES
dc.subjectGIRLS
dc.subjectGROWTH RATE
dc.subjectHEALTH PROBLEMS
dc.subjectHEALTH SERVICES
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD HEAD
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD STRUCTURE
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD SURVEY
dc.subjectHUMAN CAPITAL
dc.subjectHUMAN DEVELOPMENT
dc.subjectINCOME
dc.subjectINCOMES
dc.subjectLABOR PRODUCTIVITY
dc.subjectMARKETING
dc.subjectMORTALITY
dc.subjectPOLICY WORK
dc.subjectPOLITICAL PARTICIPATION
dc.subjectPOOR HOUSEHOLDS
dc.subjectPOPULATION GROWTH
dc.subjectPOSITIVE EXTERNALITIES
dc.subjectPOVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subjectPOVERTY REDUCTION POLICY
dc.subjectPOVERTY STATUS
dc.subjectPRIMARY EDUCATION
dc.subjectPRODUCTIVE ASSETS
dc.subjectPUBLIC POLICY
dc.subjectPUBLIC SERVICES
dc.subjectRESEARCH INSTITUTE
dc.subjectRESOURCE ALLOCATION
dc.subjectSOCIAL CAPITAL
dc.subjectSOCIAL POLICY
dc.subjectSOILS
dc.subjectWATER SUPPLY POVERTY REDUCTION
dc.subjectGENDER INEQUALITY
dc.subjectHUMAN CAPITAL
dc.subjectGIRLS' EDUCATION
dc.subjectWOMEN'S HEALTH
dc.subjectACCESS TO CREDIT
dc.subjectFINANCIAL SERVICES
dc.subjectWOMEN'S PARTICIPATION
dc.subjectSOCIAL CAPITAL
dc.subjectPUBLIC POLICY
dc.subjectHOUSEHOLD DATA
dc.subjectECONOMIC GROWTH
dc.subjectASSET RATIO
dc.titleGender, Growth, and Poverty Reductionen
dc.title.alternativeInegalite des sexes, croissance et reduction de la pauvreteen
dspace.entity.typePublication
okr.date.disclosure2001-06-01
okr.date.doiregistration2025-04-29T10:30:17.060159Z
okr.doctypePublications & Research::Brief
okr.doctypePublications & Research
okr.docurlhttp://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/1999/02/1121201/gender-growth-poverty-reduction
okr.globalpracticeSocial, Urban, Rural and Resilience
okr.globalpracticeAgriculture
okr.globalpracticePoverty
okr.globalpracticeEnvironment and Natural Resources
okr.globalpracticeHealth, Nutrition, and Population
okr.guid745131467990077142
okr.guid944571468000274535
okr.identifier.externaldocumentum000094946_01051904062345
okr.identifier.internaldocumentum1121201
okr.identifier.report22127
okr.language.supporteden
okr.pdfurlhttp://www-wds.worldbank.org/external/default/WDSContentServer/WDSP/IB/2001/06/01/000094946_01051904062345/Rendered/PDF/multi0page.pdfen
okr.region.administrativeAfrica
okr.topicAgricultural Knowledge and Information Systems
okr.topicHealth Monitoring and Evaluation
okr.topicPoverty Reduction::Poverty Assessment
okr.topicHousing and Human Habitats
okr.topicEnvironmental Economics and Policies
okr.topicCommunities and Human Settlements
okr.topicHealth, Nutrition and Population
okr.topicEnvironment
okr.topicAgriculture
okr.unitAFT: Knowledge & Learning (AFTKL)
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