Overcoming poverty

I recently came across a UNDP report on poverty and these are some of the salient points from that report.

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Overcoming human poverty

Policy making on gender and poverty has often been based on the assumption that women are poorer than men. To date, most analysis has been based on measures of income poverty, using quantitative, …..


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