This paper examines the relationship between measures of income poverty, undernourishment, childhood undernutrition … measures of deprivation, the measures generate some inter-regional paradoxes. Income poverty and child mortality is highest in …

This paper uses a fixed-effects model to analyze the effect of IMF programs on poverty with data from 82 countries … during 1985 to 2000. Two indicators of poverty, infant mortality rates and the Human Development Index (HDI), are utilized … governance factors. The results show that the IMF's programs have no significant direct impact on poverty. Growth and good …

This paper analyses multidimensional aspects of child poverty in Kenya. We carry out poverty and inequality comparisons … of poverty comparisons show that: children with the lowest probability of survival are from households with the lowest … level of assets; and poverty orderings for child survival by assets are robust to the choice of the poverty line and to the …