government transfers on economic well-being varied by household type during the COVID-19 pandemic. Our findings indicate that … pandemic transfers disproportionately benefited households with children, buffering them from earnings losses at the pandemic …'s start and sustaining spending growth over time. Household essential spending increased proportionally with the delivery of …

. 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 …