Gender Differences in Poverty in Colombia
This note presents the gender poverty profiles for Colombia using a lifecycle approach. In Colombia, as in the vast majority of countries around the world, girls and boys are consistently poorer than adults and seniors. Notwithstanding, the differe...
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| Format: | Brief |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2019
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| Online Access: | http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/194171560759064726/Gender-Differences-in-Poverty-in-Colombia http://hdl.handle.net/10986/32008 |
| Summary: | This note presents the gender poverty
profiles for Colombia using a lifecycle approach. In
Colombia, as in the vast majority of countries around the
world, girls and boys are consistently poorer than adults
and seniors. Notwithstanding, the difference on poverty
rates between women and men during their reproductive age in
Colombia is around 6 p.p. while in the world is around 2
p.p. Another interesting finding is that the likelihood of
being poor diminishes with formal education, for both women
and men. Nevertheless, as the level of formal education
increases, the share of women among the poor do so also.
This note is organized as follows: section one presents the
poverty rates for women and men, by education level, marital
status, location, and employment type. Section two presents
the results of the lifecycle approach. The authors present
the gender poverty profile when variables as age,
demographic, and economic composition are combined with
gender, to define the profiles. And finally, section three
presents some final remarks. |
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