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 …

translates into power asymmetries that can endanger human rights, create conflict, and embed social exclusion and chronic poverty …. Collectively these chapters provide a nuanced discussion of key distributive phenomena like the high concentration of income among …

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 …