Bastos, Amélia; Machado, Carla; Passos, José - In: International Journal of Social Economics 37 (2010) October, pp. 933-950
Purpose – Child poverty has become an important issue in social and political agendas. In Portugal, almost 25 per cent … of children are at risk of poverty and the most vulnerable age group. This paper seeks to investigate child poverty in … sociodemographic and economic attributes associated with child poverty in order to design the profile of income-poor children …