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The global financial crisis: are women more likely to be pushed into chronic poverty?

Jessica Espey
2009

Abstract

Although in the short-term it is the working poor who are most visibly affected by the crisis, harmful household coping strategies and compounding vulnerabilities threaten to push many, particularly many women and their dependents, into chronic poverty.

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CPRC Opinion

Keywords

gender Household dynamics finance

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