Since 2000, Zimbabwe has been under some pressure to provide more fully for its children. It is not clear whether child … poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic mismanagement have all compromised poverty reduction. In any case …, child poverty has come under increased scrutiny, in part because of the Millennium Development Goals and the growing …

deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal …This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …

and poverty reduction experienced by the population as a whole translate into better living conditions for children. …We analyse the multidimensional wellbeing of children aged 0-17 in Mozambique and find that 46.3 per cent can be … provinces. We compare Mozambican children's wellbeing with that of children in other regional countries. Despite impressive …

link urban and rural nodes, children have remained less urbanized than adults, and many grow up without co-resident parents …. Although children are clearly affected by adult labour migration, they have tended to be ignored in the migration discourse. A … focus on children provides an unusual lens for considering migration dynamics and can help to advance an understanding of …

male adults, female adults and children; the second extends the analysis to girls and boys. To improve the identification … increasing the share of men more than that of women) and worsen children's position, both when the family was left behind and … when also women and children joined the migrant in the destination country. …

A cash transfer programme 'Livelihood Empowerment against Poverty' has been implemented with the aim of addressing … poverty and vulnerability in Ghana. This study looks at the impact of this conditional cash transfer programme on households …

This paper explores the relationship between microcredit and poverty reduction. To investigate this question, we posit … supply constraints to the household's graduation from poverty. These constraints are difficult to overcome in a traditional … women's trajectory of economic success. -- microcredit ; poverty reduction ; labour market ; intra-household decision-making …

.e. the amount of household resources accruing to fathers, mothers, and their children among African families in South Africa … there is a sharp gender differential in terms of poverty. Ignoring economies of scale leads to an overestimation of poverty … among adult men and women living with others. Children's resource shares are in line with international standards but …