deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal …This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …

use income, health, education, and standard of living to measure the MPI. The MPI headcount declined from 26.9 to 13 … chronic conditions. Income is the dominant instrument with the highest contribution to the MPI, followed by insurance. Cooking …

on the role of (income) inequality in poverty reduction. The evidence involves both an indirect channel via the tendency … of high inequality to decrease the rate at which income is transformed to poverty reduction and the tendency of rising … headcount measure of poverty as the dependent variable and the Gini coefficient and PPP-adjusted mean income as explanatory …

targets, it is important to examine various economic and sociocultural demand-side factors that hinder children from attending … appear to have substantial consequences on school attendance: perceptions about school readiness of children, economic … related to why preprimary-aged children not in school are viewed as being too young for schooling, why primary-aged children …

. And with a relatively young population, the poverty situation concerns largely children who are at the critical stages of … their physical, mental, and social development. This report provides a comprehensive profile of children who are living in … that in 2009, 13.4 million or over a third of all children aged below 18 are living below the poverty line. Both the …

transfers (CTs). On the basis of household survey data, we analyse their coverage, importance in household income, and effects … on poverty reduction and income redistribution. We also present a static microsimulation to analyse the potential impacts … variation of these interventions in terms of their design, coverage, and importance in household income. CTs account for a …

middle income countries that examined optimal approaches to reduce child poverty using universal categorical child allowances … Ghanaian households contain children, and those households contain 82 per cent of the total population, spreading the impact of … a small allowance - funded by a fixed budget - over a very large proportion of the population. Income differences at the …