amplify differences in child poverty by maternal education. The prevalence of single motherhood has increased in almost all of … particularly among the least educated. Educational differences in single motherhood can amplify differences in child poverty by … maternal education, but only when both the educational gradient of single motherhood and the child poverty gap by single …

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 …

dimensions of severe child poverty in 67 middle- and low-income countries. It also analyzes how certain institutional conditions …, namely the quality of government (QoG), have moderating effects on the relationship between disasters and child poverty. Two … main hypotheses are tested. The first is that disasters do have an adverse average effect on severe poverty. The second is …

Child poverty remains staggeringly high. One in five children live on less than $1.90 a day and children are more than … twice as likely to be living in extreme income poverty compared with adults. Despite clear evidence of the effectiveness of … well-designed social protection in tackling child poverty, children are one of the population groups at highest risk of …