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

dimensions of severe child poverty in 67 middle- and low-income countries. It also analyzes how certain institutional conditions …, namely the quality of government (QoG), have moderating effects on the relationship between disasters and child poverty. Two … main hypotheses are tested. The first is that disasters do have an adverse average effect on severe poverty. The second is …

those measures that does not coincide with real improvements in the health of the affected children. This bias could lead to …

We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country … Ecuador. Two years after families lost the transfer, which they had received for seven years, their young children weigh less …, and are shorter and more likely to be stunted than young children in families that kept the cash transfer. We find no …