The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries - the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK …, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is … sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted to address the problem? "Poverty" is interpreted broadly and hence the …

impact on the chances of children exiting and entering poverty are compared to similar data for Britain and West Germany …This paper considers the dynamics of child income poverty in New Zealand. Annual movements into and out of poverty by … children's households in New Zealand over the 1997/98, 1998/99, and 1999/2000 periods are analysed. The annual Income …

children in Interwar Britain, using the Boyd Orr cohort, a survey of predominantly poor families taken in 1937-9. We examine … the trade-off between child quality (in the form of health outcomes) and the number of children in the family. We find … that birth order and family size have negative effects on the heights of children, but not on their BMI. Household income …

This paper offers a descriptive portrait of income poverty among children in Germany between the early 1980s and 2001 … focuses upon comparisons between East and West Germany, by family structure, and citizenship status. Child poverty rates have … part these changes are due to increasing poverty among children from households headed by non-citizens. Children in single …

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 …

The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries – the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK …, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is … sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted to address the problem? ?Poverty? is interpreted broadly and hence the …

growth in the 2000s along with a reduction in rural consumption poverty. This paper evaluates the extent to which recent …

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 …

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 …

This paper analyzes child poverty in Bangladesh and China during periods of rapid economic growth in both countries. It … compares the extent as well as profile of child poverty in both countries. Comparisons on the extent of child poverty, over … time and across countries, are made using a decomposition framework attributing child poverty differences to differences in …