The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries – the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK …, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is … sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted to address the problem? ?Poverty? is interpreted broadly and hence the …

them? And third, what impact do measures of public resources for children have on child poverty rates? …The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of fiscal policy on the economic resources available to children …, and on the child poverty rate. A static microsimulation model specifically designed for the purposes of comparative fiscal …

poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are … stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries … formulate a number of suggestions for the setting of credible targets for the elimination of child poverty in the rich countries …

This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg … the relative role of income transfers from the state in determining the magnitude and direction of change in child poverty … child poverty, changes in child poverty, and the impact of public policy in North America and Europe. …

Starting from the recent UNICEF publications on child poverty in the developed countries, which received a wide …

data. While native children face yearly poverty risks of less than 10 percent in all three countries and for all years … investigated the increasing proportion of immigrant children with an origin in middle and low income countries have poverty risks …Immigrant and native child poverty in Denmark, Norway and Sweden 1993 to 2001 is investigated using large sets of panel …

This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden … using unique data for 1990, 1996 and 2002. We find that the number of neighbourhoods with high child poverty rates is much … larger in 2002 than in 1990, but also that most poor children in the three regions live outside poor neighbourhoods. A …

The drive to reduce child poverty is of particular interest in southern Europe, where the subsidiary role of the State … in matters of family policy has implied that programmes of public assistance to poor families with children are often … family allowances, non-contributory child benefits and tax credits or allowances) on child poverty in Greece, Italy, Spain …

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 …

from the IDEFICS study of children aged 2-9 in 16 regions of eight European countries. Based on such data as accelerometer …