mechanisms influence family investments in children, we evaluate the extent to which these mechanisms also explain other …

The world’s financial and economic crisis has taken a toll on children and poor households. High food and commodity …

children and poor households. While most governments introduced fiscal stimuli to buffer their populations from the impacts of … considered are conducive to the objective of adequately protecting children and poor households and the achievement of …

poverty used in this paper. These enrich our understanding but do not directly deal with children growing up in absolute … poverty and non-participation in schooling. This issue can be meaningfully explored with household as the unit of analysis … number of children and the household size in very-poor, poor, non-poor low income and non-poor high income households from …