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 …

revenue, which is spent for public goods (including education) and transfers (for poverty reduction). The efficient design of … poverty in an appropriate time period by transfers and vocational education measures for the grown-up as well as high quality … primary, secondary and tertiary education programs for the children, the transfer expenditure would decrease and the tax bases …

children in the income distributions, and to calculate child poverty prevalence, to assess how far children receive transfers … transfers to younger children has different poverty reduction effects between countries - depending on age composition and co … from state social protection systems compared to other agegroups. The results show that children are disproportionately …

This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to estimate the rate of extreme poverty among children in the … ages 18 and above. Poverty rates are high for children ages 0 to 4 years, slightly higher among ages 5 to 9 years, and … developing world. The estimates are based on the same surveys and welfare measures as official World Bank poverty estimates. Of …

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 …

, protected children from higher rates of child poverty? For this question, we disaggregated incomes to identify tax and transfer …This paper aims to better understand the income factors that influenced child poverty rates across a group of four … diverse middle-income countries in 2010. We use data from LIS to analyze child poverty using harmonized measures of income in …

This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to estimate the rate of extreme poverty among children in the … ages 18 and above. Poverty rates are high for children ages 0 to 4 years, slightly higher among ages 5 to 9 years, and … developing world. The estimates are based on the same surveys and welfare measures as official World Bank poverty estimates. Of …

This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to estimate the rate of extreme poverty among children in the … developing world. The estimates are based on the same surveys and welfare measures as official World Bank poverty estimates. Of … children under age 18 years, 19.5 percent are estimated to live on less than …