). It also extends this analysis to cover education expenditure as well and how it might exert similar effects on these … overestimate total household expenditure, which results in an underestimation of poverty measured in terms of household expenditure … poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle-income countries (India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation and Peru …

affecting children and policies to mitigate it. Report Card 7 provides a pioneering, comprehensive picture of child well being … through the consideration of six dimensions: material well-being, health and safety, education, family and peer relationships …

children in Western and Central Africa, which can also be applied to study the effects of other socio-economic shocks on … households and particularly on children in developing countries. To understand the nature and the extent of the effects of a … households and their children. As timely data monitoring child well-being are not readily available to guide the rapid …

-micro economic model to predict the impact of the global crisis on children was developed. Simulations suggest that the financial …

child welfare recognised as fundamental child rights economic well-being, health and education. Then it concentrates on … particularly vulnerable groups of children those born of teenage and single mothers and those living in institutions. The data show … that the human cost of economic transition has been high and children have been among the most vulnerable groups of the …

affecting children and policies to mitigate it. Report Card 7 provides a pioneering, comprehensive picture of child well being … through the consideration of six dimensions: material well-being, health and safety, education, family and peer relationships …

children. The impacts are analyzed in terms of monetary (food) poverty, nutrition, education, child labour and access to health … services of children. According to simulations, food poverty among children would have increased from 41% to 51%, with a … children would be erroneously excluded (under-coverage), while more than a third of non-poor children would be erroneously …

The paper focuses on the support given through tax and benefit systems to families with children and addresses how the … usually measured in rather narrow terms by adding up the benefits explicitly labelled as being for children, we adopt a more … comprehensive approach whereby all tax-benefit instruments (or their components) which are contingent on the presence of children …

The objective of this paper is to analyse the impact of fiscal policy on the economic resources available to children … groups, and in particular to what degree do cash transfer and tax systems benefit children relative to older groups? We find … that in most countries children receive a higher proportion of their share of household income from government transfers …