Starting from the recent UNICEF publications on child poverty in the developed countries, which received a wide …

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 …

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 moderating effects on the relationship between disasters and child poverty. Two … main hypotheses are tested. The first is that disasters do have an adverse average effect on severe poverty. The second is …

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 …, protected children from higher rates of child poverty? For this question, we disaggregated incomes to identify tax and transfer …

This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to estimate the rate of extreme poverty among children in the … developing world. The estimates are based on the same surveys and welfare measures as official World Bank poverty estimates. Of … ages 18 and above. Poverty rates are high for children ages 0 to 4 years, slightly higher among ages 5 to 9 years, and …

This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to estimate the rate of extreme poverty among children in the … developing world. The estimates are based on the same surveys and welfare measures as official World Bank poverty estimates. Of …