middle income countries that examined optimal approaches to reduce child poverty using universal categorical child allowances … Ghanaian households contain children, and those households contain 82 per cent of the total population, spreading the impact of … margins of the poverty line were found to be small and robustness and sensitivity tests were done to accompany simulation …

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 …

In this study, we examined to what extent family policies differently affect poverty among single-parent households and …, family policies reduced poverty to a greater extent among single-parent households. Paid leave more effectively facilitated … the employment of single parents, thereby reducing their poverty more than among two-parent households. Family allowances …

exploits heterogeneity in duration of program exposure to evaluate the impact of the program on children aged 6 to 60 months …. By examining differences in nutritional status of treated younger children and a placebo group of older children, the … analysis finds that the program improved the nutritional status of treated children, and most significantly, led to 7 and 15 …

this survey by the Office of the High Commissioner against Child Poverty in Spain. This Office used the Spanish version of … the survey on fields such as the design of a minimum income scheme, the evaluation of energy poverty from a child … perspective, the changing dynamics of poverty according to country of origin, or the impact of housing costs on poverty. On the …

alleviate child poverty concerns and financial constraints to having children. …In response to the low fertility rate and high child poverty in Poland, the government implemented the Family 500 …+ program which provides cash transfers to families with two or more children, and low-income, one-child families. Using a …

children as well as to reduce child poverty. In this study the authors critically investigate this assertion by simulating a … findings suggest that to achieve significant poverty reductions among young children, both additional childcare slots and … states we estimate the impact on poverty and on the government budget using the European microsimulation model EUROMOD. The …