growth has been accompanied by improvements in multidimensional child welfare using a first-order dominance approach applied …

gains in some indicators, multidimensional child poverty in Mozambique still substantially exceeds that in neighbouring … countries. Targeted policies considering the specificities of child welfare are needed to ensure that the national-level growth …

short-to-medium run relationship between sudden shocks to food prices and child nutrition status. We link local price … inflation with child malnutrition status. We find that the prevalence of underweight amongst children rises in response to a …,000 severely underweight children. -- food prices ; inflation ; child malnutrition ; Mozambique ; short to medium-run relationship …

This study assesses temporal and spatial distribution of child deprivation and income poverty using the fifth and sixth … the following: reduction in child deprivation across all five dimensions over time; wide disparities across geographical … areas; and differences in regional rankings of deprivation and income poverty. Distinct policies for child deprivation and …

We contribute to the literature on trends in living standards in Tanzania by analysing child welfare using two multi …

Since 2000, Zimbabwe has been under some pressure to provide more fully for its children. It is not clear whether child …, child poverty has come under increased scrutiny, in part because of the Millennium Development Goals and the growing … interest in new kinds of intervention among international agencies and donors. Zimbabwe might have adopted the child …

primary census-type panel household survey in 18 villages in rural China, this paper first documents the fact that child …

This paper considers the case for universal child allowances in Ghana. It follows findings from an earlier study of 14 … middle income countries that examined optimal approaches to reduce child poverty using universal categorical child allowances …. The paper describes the demographic profiles that will influence the impact of a universal child allowance: 67 per cent of …