The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries – the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK …, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is … sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted to address the problem? ?Poverty? is interpreted broadly and hence the …

deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal …This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …

. 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 …

covers 5.8 million children in poor rural China and provides 6-24-month old children with a free nutrition supplement that …

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 …

on poverty reduction and income redistribution. We also present a static microsimulation to analyse the potential impacts …, intensity, and severity of poverty are, in the best of cases, moderate and, although their progressivity is high, their …