. And with a relatively young population, the poverty situation concerns largely children who are at the critical stages of … that in 2009, 13.4 million or over a third of all children aged below 18 are living below the poverty line. Both the …-negligible number of families move in and out of poverty and this vulnerability poses risks on children's well-being. With the recent …

on poverty reduction and income redistribution. We also present a static microsimulation to analyse the potential impacts …, intensity, and severity of poverty are, in the best of cases, moderate and, although their progressivity is high, their …

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 …

amplify differences in child poverty by maternal education. The prevalence of single motherhood has increased in almost all of … particularly among the least educated. Educational differences in single motherhood can amplify differences in child poverty by … maternal education, but only when both the educational gradient of single motherhood and the child poverty gap by single …

middle income countries that examined optimal approaches to reduce child poverty using universal categorical child allowances … Ghanaian households contain children, and those households contain 82 per cent of the total population, spreading the impact of … margins of the poverty line were found to be small and robustness and sensitivity tests were done to accompany simulation …

We estimate the impact of changes in unearned income on the height and weight of young children in a developing country … Ecuador. Two years after families lost the transfer, which they had received for seven years, their young children weigh less …, and are shorter and more likely to be stunted than young children in families that kept the cash transfer. We find no …