sets from Household Income Surverys of 1988 and 1995, the author examines poverty distribution among various localities and …

In 2000, 8.8 million children received food stamps, making the Food Stamp Program a crucial component of the social … safety net. Despite its importance, little research has examined the effect of food stamps on children's overall well …

special reference to children living in diverse poverty situations. …

that women and children suffer greater poverty than in households which conform with a more common (and idealised) male … imagined not only to compromise the material well-being of children, but to compound other privations – emotional … the start that children have in life, nor of their trajectories into adolescence and adulthood. On the basis of such …

The active participation of children in primary education hinges on a plethora of factors. Physical access is just one … dimension. Children do not attend school regularly, and even if they do, they do not learn very much because of a range of … of teachers and quality of schools. Once children reach school, a variety of factors determine whether they will continue …

The State of the World's Children 2011 examines the global state of adolescents; outlines the challenges they face in …