Household expenditure patterns and resource pooling: evidence of changes in post-apartheid South Africa

Poverty and expenditure pattern of house

Poverty and expenditure pattern of households in Pakistan and South Africa: a comparative study

✍ Ranjan Ray 📂 Article 📅 2000 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 138 KB 👁 1 views

This paper compares the poverty rates of male-and female-headed households in Pakistan and, also, in South Africa. It ®nds that in South Africa, female-headed households are unconditionally poorer than the others. In Pakistan, however, this result holds only in the presence of economies of household