Since poverty traps women in multiple layers of discrimination and hinders their ability to claim their rights, ending feminized poverty has always been a core UNIFEM priority. Not only do women bear a disproportionate burden of the world's poverty, but in some cases, globalization has widened the gap, with women losing more than their share of jobs, benefits and labour rights. >From tax systems to trade regimes, however, economic policies and institutions still mostly fail to take gender disparities into account.

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Pro-Poor Growth and Gender Inequality: Insights from new research, by Stephan Klasen

 

 

Analysing and Achieving Pro-Poor Growth – Poverty in Focus 

This issue of IPC’s Journal Poverty in Focus concentrates not so much on the definition of pro-poor growth as the analysis of it and its policy implications and results. The authors spell out and apply different definitions and measures in discussing various policy-related aspects of pro-poor growth.  

Featured articles:

• Global Estimates of Pro-Poor Growth, by Hyun H. Son
• Pro-Poor Growth and Gender Inequality: Insights from new research, by Stephan Klasen
• Analysing the Distributional Pattern of Growth, by Andy McKay
• Promoting Pro-Poor Growth: Lessons from country experiences, by Louise Cord
• Integrated Economic Analysis for Pro-Poor Growth, by Susanna Lundström and Per Ronnas
• Employment and Pro-Poor Growth, by Azizur Rahman Khan
• Formalising Informal Firms: What can be done?, by Esther K. Ishengoma and Robert Kappel
• The Policy Origins of Poverty and Growth in India, by Timothy Besley, Robert Burgess and Berta Esteve-Volart
• Growth and Poverty in Asia: Prospects for achieving the MDGs, by John Farrington and Mark Robinson
• Poverty, Inequality and Labour Markets in Sub-Saharan Africa, by Germano Mwabu and Erik Thorbecke
• Pro-Poor Stagnation: The Brazilian paradox, by  Nanak Kakwani, Marcelo Neri and Hyun H. Son
• Ten Commandments of Pro-Poor Growth, by Mwangi S. Kimenyi