This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to estimate the rate of extreme poverty among children in the … ages 18 and above. Poverty rates are high for children ages 0 to 4 years, slightly higher among ages 5 to 9 years, and … developing world. The estimates are based on the same surveys and welfare measures as official World Bank poverty estimates. Of …

finds that children born into consanguineous marriages have lower test scores, lower height-for-age, and a higher likelihood …

. Conditionality was linked to older children enrolling in school and attending regularly and younger children receiving preventive … health check-ups. Compared with the control group, cash transfers improve children's education and health and household … is evidence that money given to fathers improves young children's health, particularly during years of poor rainfall …

and poverty levels, as well as to the misclassification of some individuals as regards to their poverty status. Using a … overall poverty rate, but individual poverty statuses are affected. Intra-household consumption inequalities accounts for 14 … intra-household inequality and individual risk of poverty …

insights from poverty analysis and urban economics, and develops a methodology to assess spatial performance with a high degree …

Hardly any literature exists on the relationship between equivalence scales and poverty dynamics for transitional … countries. This paper offers a new study on the impacts of equivalence scale adjustments on poverty dynamics in the Russian … household demographic composition. The adjustments for the equivalence of scales result in lower estimates of poverty lines. The …

find that such measures, while useful, will have only a limited effect on the mortality of poor children. They find that …

declines continuously with rising living standards; 3) the tendency of poorer children to have higher rates of stunting, and …

between rural non-farm activities (wage and self-employment) and household welfare in rural Malawi. The paper analyzes the …-farm wage employment and non-farm self-employment are welfare improving and poverty reducing. However, households at the lower … support the promotion of the rural non-farm economy for poverty reduction purposes, they indicate that targeted interventions …

In this paper, the authors seek to answer three questions about poverty and forests in Malawi: (1) What is the extent … of biomass available for meeting the energy needs of the poor in Malawi and how is this distributed? (2) To what extent … answer these questions using household and remote-sensing data. They find that 80 percent of rural poor households in Malawi …