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 …

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 …