In addition to evidence that gender affects growth, evidence from the 2000/2001 World Development Report: Attacking Poverty shows that gender relations affect all aspects of poverty, including income, opportunity, security, and empowerment. 19 With regard to income poverty, in some countries, girls in poor families receive lower quality nutrition, less health care, and poorer education than their brothers. 20 Likewise, as noted above, female household mem- bers often have less access to and control over the household’s pro- ductive resources and income than do male family members. 21 In standard neoclassical economic theory, households are usually regarded as sharing a single utility function and an equitable distri- bution of resources and well-being. Recent.
