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 …

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 …

reveal a widespread imbalance: women receive about one-fifth less than men, leading to a 60% higher poverty rate. Children …Since intra-household resource distribution is unobserved, it is difficult to compare how women and children fare …-household resource sharing, we construct globally comparable measures of gender inequality and child poverty in consumption. Our findings …

. 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 …

measures of child poverty, introduced to help target effective policies that make a real difference to children's lives. Those … well-being has focused on improving the financial position of families with children. Using Understanding Society I show … that child life satisfaction is not associated with household income (poverty), or with a set of new material deprivation …

We investigate the impact of the Romanian and Czech family policy systems on the income distribution and poverty risk … of families with children. We focus on separating out the effects of the policy design itself, size of the benefits and …

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 …. Overall, the cross-national variation in the disposable income of disadvantaged children is comprised equally of variation in … fifth decreased substantially in Spain and in Ireland, but were relatively stable in other rich nations. …

of children under five years old are facing stunting. It is notable that poverty levels in Balochistan province of … multidimensional child poverty and deprivation in multiple dimensions using Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis (MODA). The … results show that 71% children under five years of age are deprived in nutrition, health, child development, housing and …

Child poverty increased dramatically during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2020 alone, the number of children suffering from … poverty and mitigate the long-term impact of poverty. Reducing the number of children affected by poverty can be achieved by … poverty in the EU increased by 19 percent, or close to 1 million. Left unaddressed, this would not only affect individuals …