Over the issue of the difference or otherwise between economically active children and home-care children, there are … two competing claims by researchers. One holds that economically active children and home- care children are the same in … that both groups of children have identical determinants, while the other contradicts this view. Using the probit analysis …

Estimates of child poverty are based on the percentage of children living in poor households, which ignores the issue … is not possible to report figures relating to the number of children living in poverty. Yet analysts using income and …

Child poverty matters directly as children constitute a large share of the population and indirectly for future … individual and national well- being. Developed country measures of child poverty are dominated by income-poverty, although health … children. Moreover, a broader range of factors than material well-being matter for child development; family and community play …

portrait of the Canadian population is offered as are estimates of the degree of generational mobility among the children of …

technology. Even today less than half of the school-age children are going to school. Some common but many of them disputed … perceptions about lower school-enrolment rate, at the household level are that the younger age children, younger in their brothers … and sisters, male children, and the children from educated parents; high-income households; smaller households; wealthy …

This research demonstrates that human capital accumulation by the poor is only possible if a minimum level of health … and health care, and finance is not available for this purpose, a poverty trap exists with low health, education and … nutrition and health impairing human potential, and in particular early child development. This link between health and …

accumulation of human capital during the transition from stagnation to growth. This is because greater longevity raises children … also casts doubts on recent findings about a positive effect of health on education. This is because health raises the … that longevity and health have had a minor effect, if any, on the transition from stagnation to growth via investment in …

In the absence of any extra familial welfare system, most elderly persons in India tend to coreside with children …. An analysis of the recent National Sample Survey data suggests that elderly men and women with children tend to enjoy on … average higher consumption expenditure per adult equivalent if they coreside with children. There is also evidence that the …

in health, community, and justice services, as well as private industry (banking, housing, insurance) and government …

workshop was organised to provide an opportunity for a more detailed discussion by a group of leading health policy analysts of … competition’ is being touted as the answer to the weaknesses in their health care systems. …