This Element reviews what we know about parental investments and children's human capital in low-to-middle-income …'s human capital in the form of cognitive skills, socioemotional skills and physical and mental health; then reviews estimates … of impacts of these forms of human capital; next considers the implications of such estimates for inequality and poverty …

health, education, employment, income and expenditure, housing, access to public facilities and services, social capital and … also in terms of non-traditional measures, such as self-rated poverty and happiness. The BLSS 2012, together with the BLSS …

particular, poverty reduction was slower in low-income DMCs than the others under both the $1.25 and $2 per day poverty lines …Poverty reduction in the Asia and the Pacific region in 2005-2008 had been quite significant. Despite the global crisis …, an estimated 150 million people exited extreme poverty by 2008 - from 903.4 million in 2005 to 753.5 million, bringing …

Detailed analyses of poverty and wellbeing in developing countries, based on household surveys, have been ongoing for …, and their information base with respect to poverty and wellbeing has improved dramatically. Nevertheless, appropriate … measurement of poverty remains complex and controversial. This is particularly true in developing countries where (i) the stakes …