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 …

real and relative earnings of young adults under the age of 35. Despite the fact that most young children live in … households headed by adults under 35, there has been no corresponding secular rise in the incidence of low income among children …. Rather child poverty has followed the usual fluctuations of the business cycle. We show that the relative stability in child …

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 …

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 …