Recent studies suggest that current approaches to tackling childhood poverty have had limited efficacy. This book … brings together a discussion of childhoods, children's experiences of poverty and development discourses, and case studies to …

development: to what extent does targeting and size of social transfers matter for poverty? Using multilevel logistic regression … explanatory value for cross-country differences in poverty than the degree of targeting of transfer income. The results are …

"An overview of the economic development of and policies intended to combat poverty around the world." …"While there is no denying that the world has made huge progress against absolute poverty over the last 200 years … greater progress against poverty in the developing world in recent times-indeed, a faster pace of progress against extreme …