Report Card 10 considers two views of child poverty in the world’s advanced economies: a measure of absolute … deprivation, and a measure of relative poverty. The first measure is a 14-item Child Deprivation Index that represents a … 'poverty line' - defined as 50 per cent of median disposable household income. …

The purpose of the paper is to analyze the effects of changes in policy of child benefit provisions on child poverty … direct poverty analysis, i.e., we decompose the change in poverty into changes in child benefits, and other factors. We carry … poverty was negative, i.e., it contributed to poverty increase, with the decrease in payments being the main cause of the …