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 …

There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money … overestimate total household expenditure, which results in an underestimation of poverty measured in terms of household expenditure … poverty and child poverty estimates in five middle-income countries (India, Mexico, South Africa, Russian Federation and Peru …

We estimate the short- and long-term effects of maternal and paternal death on children's school enrolment, educational … attainment and health in Indonesia, and compare it with the effect of chronic poverty. We also investigate whether there are any … no significant health effects of orphanhood. Meanwhile, chronically poor children have worse health and education …

Definitions of poverty in developing countries used by most development organizations focus on household income or … terms and ideas to communicate what extreme poverty means to them. This paper discusses learning from the extreme poor in …