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

Quisumbing, Agnes R.; Haddad, Lawrence J.; Peña, Christine. 2001. Are women overrepresented among the poor? An analysis of poverty in ten developing countries. FCND Discussion Paper Brief 115. https://hdl.handle.net/10568/158123

This paper presents new evidence on the proportion of women in poverty in ten developing countries. It compares poverty measures for males and females and male- and female-headed households, and investigates the sensitivity of these measures to the use of per-capita and per-adult equivalent units and different definitions of the poverty line.