When welfare is analysed in Sweden the analysis is usually made at the national level; when the analysis is not done on … the national level, the local level is in focus to illuminate differences between municipalities. Studies on poverty are … no exception. The regional level contains a lot of information which is needed to understand the dynamics of poverty …

When welfare is analysed in Sweden the analysis is usually made at the national level; when the analysis is not done on … the national level, the local level is in focus to illuminate differences between municipalities. Studies on poverty are … no exception. The regional level contains a lot of information which is needed to understand the dynamics of poverty …

This paper takes a fresh look at child poverty at the neighbourhood level in the three metropolitan regions of Sweden … disproportionally large fraction of children with backgrounds from low- and middle-income countries live in poor neighbourhoods … using unique data for 1990, 1996 and 2002. We find that the number of neighbourhoods with high child poverty rates is much …

deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal …This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …

Since 2000, Zimbabwe has been under some pressure to provide more fully for its children. It is not clear whether child … poverty has worsened, although AIDS, drought, and economic mismanagement have all compromised poverty reduction. In any case …, child poverty has come under increased scrutiny, in part because of the Millennium Development Goals and the growing …

. Conventionally, child well-being is examined from the perspective of income poverty. However, numerous studies have argued that … income is just one of the defining characteristics of poverty. Furthermore, examining child well-being only through monetary … lens risk leaving behind millions of children because children are not economic agents. Despite global recognition of the …

This paper studies the effects of the Vietnam Hunger Eradication and Poverty Reduction (HEPR) program on school … treatment (at age 8) increases children enrolment by about 9 percent. This positive effect disappears by age 15, and is more … pronounced in urban areas. In sharp contrast, children receiving treatment later (age 12–15) are more likely to drop out by age …

and poverty reduction experienced by the population as a whole translate into better living conditions for children. …We analyse the multidimensional wellbeing of children aged 0-17 in Mozambique and find that 46.3 per cent can be … provinces. We compare Mozambican children's wellbeing with that of children in other regional countries. Despite impressive …

This paper documents the variation in living standards of the poorest fifth of children in rich (and some middle-income …. Overall, the cross-national variation in the disposable income of disadvantaged children is comprised equally of variation in … market and transfer income (with the two negatively correlated). The English-speaking countries stand out as all having …

platform, we evaluate the poverty and distributive effects on children of various reform (benefit and employment) strategies …Based on the 2013 Serbian Survey of Income and Living Conditions (SILC) and on the Serbian version of the EUROMOD …