Financial crises and food crises can increase malnutrition considerably and malnutrition is accepted to have a negative impact on the school performance of children and adolescents. Malnutrition also has a negative impact on cognitive development and a potentially lasting effect on (some)...

Child poverty can be measured using approaches that aim to make cross-country comparisons on a regional or global scale or to capture a country's specific poverty context. The first can be referred to as a global approach and the second as a country-specific approach. These underlying rationales...