families with children have stagnated or declined: further reductions in the headline relative income poverty measure since the … when the issue was promoted towards the top of the policy agenda. The position of low-income families with children in the …This paper analyses the key trends in child poverty in Britain, with particular focus on changes since the late 1990s …

economic and social costs for both individuals and societies. Disadvantaged children often fall behind in skills development …

Growing up in socio-economic disadvantage has important and long-lasting effects on children’s lives. Children from …

Child poverty is firmly on the policy agenda in many OECD countries. One of the main issues in the debate is the … appropriate balance between the so-called “benefits strategy” (increasing the adequacy of benefits for low-income families with … children) and the so-called “work strategy” (promoting policies to increase employment among poor families). The need to choose …

This volume is a collection of selected studies on poverty and well-being in East Africa. Eleven authors agreed to have … their papers included in this volume. The studies can be grouped into four domains: child poverty and malnutrition, dynamics … and determinants of poverty, multidimensional measures of poverty, and energy-environment-poverty relationships. The core …