Recent studies suggest that current approaches to tackling childhood poverty have had limited efficacy. This book brings together a discussion of childhoods, children's experiences of poverty and development discourses, and case studies to highlight the importance of integrating children's...

The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary threshold in per capita income but it does matter...