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 …

children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers … concentrated in the lower quintiles and have higher child poverty prevalence than for adults, but receive lower social protection … poverty reduction - both for child and general poverty. These simulations examine changes to poverty reduction moving from …