The paper explores the issue of how social interventions in deeply marginalized communities should be conceived in order to prevent further victimization of the most vulnerable groups within the community: children and women. The analysis relies on the example of a pilot project, which is...

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...

This paper explores the degree to which exposure to reoccurring natural disasters of various kinds explains seven dimensions of severe child poverty in 67 middle- and low-income countries. It also analyzes how certain institutional conditions, namely the quality of government (QoG), have...