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I propose a disaggregated analysis of the income that households receive to compare the redistributive capacity of the state taking child poverty as case of study. I use the LIS Database and cross-nationally compare six countries: Brazil, Colombia, Panama, Peru, Russia, and South Africa. I...
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Since 2000, Zimbabwe has been under some pressure to provide more fully for its children. It is not clear whether child …
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Families with children receive support from the tax-benefit system to a different extent across countries. In Spain … providing income support to families with children. In this paper we provide an in-depth assessment of the income support to … families with children in Spain. We distinguish between three different forms of income support: (1) benefits aimed to ease the …
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There is a wide agreement among poverty research community that conventional estimates of poverty (i.e., money-metric measures) do not take into account out of pocket payments of health care. Significant household health spending would overestimate total household expenditure, which results in...
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This volume is a collection of selected studies on poverty and well-being in East Africa. Eleven authors agreed to have their papers included in this volume. The studies can be grouped into four domains: child poverty and malnutrition, dynamics and determinants of poverty, multidimensional...
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