The report is a rich source with qualitative and quantitative data on the status of children in India from authentic …

children, at risk of growing up poor and, in turn, passing their poverty on to their children. 100 million are older people … and long-term poverty, and to reduce vulnerability, and are thus one of the most significant areas of policy for …

special reference to children living in diverse poverty situations. …

that women and children suffer greater poverty than in households which conform with a more common (and idealised) male … poverty among children. Background Paper for UNICEF's State of the World's Children 2007] … imagined not only to compromise the material well-being of children, but to compound other privations – emotional …

formal education. If and when children do drop out due to poverty/migration, rigid gender roles or other economic factors …The active participation of children in primary education hinges on a plethora of factors. Physical access is just one … dimension. Children do not attend school regularly, and even if they do, they do not learn very much because of a range of …

The State of the World's Children 2011 examines the global state of adolescents; outlines the challenges they face in … intergenerational cycle of poverty and inequity and of laying the foundation for a more peaceful, tolerant and equitable world. URL …

Fiscal policy measures are a key means by which governments can influence distribution and poverty, but in fact the … relationships between fiscal policy and poverty are not well understood. The most commonly used technique for assessing the … to more effective monitoring of the poverty impact of fiscal policy. [Discussion Paper No. 2002/43]. …

Finance Minister’s Pranab Mukherjee’s “inclusive†Budget 2010-11 does not include children, who are over 42 per … cent of the population. Out of every rupee spent in the budget, he has allotted only 4.63 paise to children. …