adult children or with other adults have kept poverty rates among the increasing number of elderly in urban China from … exceeding those among adults. In contrast, relative poverty rates are somewhat higher among children than among the entire urban …This paper presents several arguments for applying a relative poverty line to urban China. For example between 2002 and …

, Nigeria, Rwanda, and Tanzania. In these countries poverty rates are high and multifaceted and these represent a major …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 …