This paper documents levels and changes in child poverty rates in 12 OECD countries using data from the Luxembourg … the relative role of income transfers from the state in determining the magnitude and direction of change in child poverty … child poverty, changes in child poverty, and the impact of public policy in North America and Europe. …

them? And third, what impact do measures of public resources for children have on child poverty rates? …The objective of this paper is to analyze the impact of fiscal policy on the economic resources available to children …, and on the child poverty rate. A static microsimulation model specifically designed for the purposes of comparative fiscal …

poverty. The choices that must be made are clarified, and a set of six principles to serve as a guide for public policy are … stated. The second objective is to take stock of child poverty and changes in child poverty in the majority of OECD countries … formulate a number of suggestions for the setting of credible targets for the elimination of child poverty in the rich countries …

children in Germany has been marked by increasing problems: in 1997 the population share of children living in households … immigrants and foreigners. On average we find that children in Germany to have lost out in terms of their relative income …. As a result of the low educational level of their parents we find children born to immigrants and foreigners in Germany …

In the EU there is growing concern about poverty among children, and among families with children. In most OECD … countries, income poverty among children now exceeds that among the elderly, who traditionally were the demographic group most … option as regards poverty among families with children. There are two basic reasons for this. First of all, there is a …

would focus on financial poverty: people living in households with economic resources below the level used by Eurostat (60 …% of the median in the Member State), with this being accompanied by a measure of child poverty. Social investment in … not a complete substitute for social spending. The European countries which perform best in terms of reducing poverty tend …

The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries – the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK …, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is … sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted to address the problem? ?Poverty? is interpreted broadly and hence the …

the Philippines are viewed from the overall context of poverty as the major development problem of the country. The … concept of poverty as being multidimensional is adopted in this study. Consequently, various indicators relating to the … different dimensions of poverty are used to gauge the performance of the country. The Philippines' performance with regards to …

This paper analyses the relationship between growth patterns, poverty, and inequality in Brazil during its …

compares the prevalence and development of destructive envy in children aged seven to ten. The experiment took place in the … children´s natural environment - their schools. We also checked for cultural variability of our results by conducting our study … with German children and with children from a highly egalitarian society: the Eastern Penan of northern Borneo. We found …