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children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers … transfers to younger children has different poverty reduction effects between countries - depending on age composition and co … from state social protection systems compared to other agegroups. The results show that children are disproportionately …
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We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country … Ecuador. Two years after families lost the transfer, which they had received for seven years, their young children weigh less …, and are shorter and more likely to be stunted than young children in families that kept the cash transfer. We find no …
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brings together a discussion of childhoods, children's experiences of poverty and development discourses, and case studies to …Recent studies suggest that current approaches to tackling childhood poverty have had limited efficacy. This book … highlight the importance of integrating children's voices into the debate …
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, protected children from higher rates of child poverty? For this question, we disaggregated incomes to identify tax and transfer …This paper aims to better understand the income factors that influenced child poverty rates across a group of four … diverse middle-income countries in 2010. We use data from LIS to analyze child poverty using harmonized measures of income in …
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cash transfer, in Lesotho. We show that the poorest households do not increase investment in children's human capital … cash transfers might not be always effective to support the investment in children's human capital of the poorest …
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cash transfer, in Lesotho. We show that the poorest households do not increase investment in children's human capital … cash transfers might not be always effective to support the investment in children's human capital of the poorest …
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