Webinar - Intra-household inequalities: Empirical evidence and implications for rural poverty reduction policies
Tuesday, 24 March - 14:00 - 15:30 CET
Even though there is a large consensus that it is an individual condition, poverty is usually measured using household aggregated data. At the same time, social policies in developing countries, including food security and nutrition interventions, often try to reach deprived individuals by targeting poor households. However, differently from what standard poverty measures assume, there is often substantial inequality in the distribution of resources within households. The consequence is that poverty reduction policies might be fail to identify the households where most deprived individuals live and/orreach those deprived individuals
within their households.
In this webinar, Caitlin Brown will address the issue of intra-household inequality in the context of poverty measurement. She will discuss the challenges of identifying intra-household inequality as well as the consequences that accounting for it might have on current poverty numbers. Her presentation will provide an overview of the existing empirical evidence on intra-household inequality in nutritional outcomes, caloric intake, resource shares as well as discrimination against certain household members. Finally, it will analyse the implications for targeting rural poverty reduction policies.
Agenda:
- Introduction by Erdgin Mane, Policy Officer, FAO
- Presentation by Caitlin Brown, Assistant Professor, Central European University
- Open Discussion
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Organized by the Technical Network on Poverty Analysis (Think-PA)