Recent studies suggest that current approaches to tackling childhood poverty have had limited efficacy. This book … brings together a discussion of childhoods, children's experiences of poverty and development discourses, and case studies to …

"Trapped in a Maze provides a window into families' lived experiences in poverty by looking at their complex … function and demonstrates how multi-institutional involvement serves to perpetuate the conditions of poverty that these …

The concept of poverty is discussed using qualitative and quantitative measures as an indicator for social deprivation …. Poverty can be absolute, relative, income-based, consumption-based, or entitlement-based. The variation in the concept of … poverty reveals its dimensionality. However, when closely examined, these dimensions are seen to be conceptually interrelated …

much expenditure remains inefficient and ineffective in addressing the serious problem of poverty. More than a quarter of … the Russian population is poverty-stricken according to official criteria. Average wages are not much more than half of …