Gendering poverty: A review of six World Bank African poverty assessments

Development and Change

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 1999, Pages 525-555

  Whitehead, Ann ^a   Lockwood, Matthew ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POVERTY; SOCIOECONOMIC INDICATOR; WOMENS STATUS; WORLD BANK;

AFRICA;

EID: 0032855745     PISSN: 0012155X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-7660.00128     Document Type: Article

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