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 …

Despite the concerted efforts being made at the global, regional, and national levels to reduce child poverty, children … between parental financial inclusion and multidimensional child poverty using a nationally representative living standards … data from Ghana—a nation with documentative evidence of high incidence of multidimensional child poverty. Employing …

of these layers. Human Development Report 2010, using Oxford University’s newly developed Multidimensional Poverty Index …, adds more dimensions to poverty measures over and above those of the Indian Planning Commission’s (2009) new measure or … absolute poverty used in this paper. These enrich our understanding but do not directly deal with children growing up in …