This paper documents the variation in living standards of the poorest fifth of children in rich (and some middle …. Overall, the cross-national variation in the disposable income of disadvantaged children is comprised equally of variation in …

Families with children receive support from the tax-benefit system to a different extent across countries. In Spain …, child poverty remains high as compared to other EU countries, possibly pointing to a weaker role of the public sector in … providing income support to families with children. In this paper we provide an in-depth assessment of the income support to …

. 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 …

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 …

middle income countries that examined optimal approaches to reduce child poverty using universal categorical child allowances … Ghanaian households contain children, and those households contain 82 per cent of the total population, spreading the impact of … margins of the poverty line were found to be small and robustness and sensitivity tests were done to accompany simulation …

children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers … transfers to younger children has different poverty reduction effects between countries - depending on age composition and co … from state social protection systems compared to other agegroups. The results show that children are disproportionately …