This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over … time and across countries, are made using a decomposition framework attributing child poverty differences to differences in …

years since immigration and education affect risks of the number of periods in persistent poverty. While a native child is …Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1993 to 2001 is investigated using large sets of panel … data. While native children face yearly poverty risks of less than 10 percent in all three countries and for all years …

measuring poverty among refugee populations. However, refugee data remain scarce, particularly in relation to the measurement of … income, consumption, or expenditure. This paper offers a first attempt to measure poverty among refugees using cross … system, the proposed methodology offers out-of-sample predicted poverty rates.These estimates are not statistically different …

We explore the impact of authorization on the poverty exposure of households headed by undocumented immigrants. The … identification strategy makes use of the 2012 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, which provided a temporary work … authorization and reprieve from deportation to eligible immigrants. Using a difference-in-differences approach, we compare DACA …

Poverty among ethnic minorities and the majority in rural China for the years 2000, 2001 and 2002 is investigated … line, almost one-third of the ethnic minorities experienced poverty during the three years studied while the corresponding … ethnic majority. The relatively high poverty rates for ethnic minorities in rural China are found to be due to higher rates …

Focus in the paper is on poverty among immigrants and refugees 50 years and older coming to Denmark from countries … become eligible for State pension. Poverty rates by national background are described using alternative household concepts …. Next, a number of background factors of relevance for poverty are summarized.We focus on age, gender, marital status …