This volume is a collection of selected studies on poverty and well-being in East Africa. Eleven authors agreed to have … their papers included in this volume. The studies can be grouped into four domains: child poverty and malnutrition, dynamics … and determinants of poverty, multidimensional measures of poverty, and energy-environment-poverty relationships. The core …

with household multidimensional poverty by considering children aged less than five years. The study uses from the Third … components analysis (MCA) and hierarchical classification methods are applied to appreciate both child and household poverty. The … results show that 73 % children aged less than five years lived with multidimensional poverty line with 25 % being affected by …

. And with a relatively young population, the poverty situation concerns largely children who are at the critical stages of … that in 2009, 13.4 million or over a third of all children aged below 18 are living below the poverty line. Both the …-negligible number of families move in and out of poverty and this vulnerability poses risks on children's well-being. With the recent …