CHILD POVERTY AND INEQUALITY: THE WAY FORWARD

Child Poverty and Inequality New Perspectives Isabel Ortiz, Louise Moreira Daniels and Sólrún Engilbertsdóttir (Editors) Divisio ...

CHILD POVERTY AND INEQUALITY NEW PERSPECTIVES Isabel Ortiz Louise Moreira Daniels Sólrún Engilbertsdóttir Editors Division of Po ...

Cover design: Upasana Young Cover and back photos: © UNICEF/NYHQ1996-0909/LeMoyne © UNICEF/INDIA-00073/Shankar © UNICEF/PHIA2009 ...

Contents Acknowledgments i Introduction 1 Isabel Ortiz, Louise Moreira Daniels and Sólrún Engilbertsdóttir Making the Case for C ...

Child Poverty, Policy and Evidence: Mainstreaming Children in International Development 89 Nicola Jones and Andy Sumner Just Giv ...

Contributors Hanna Alder is Programme/Research Officer at the Overseas Development Institute (ODI). Sabina Alkire is Director at ...

Geoffrey Gertz is Research Analyst at the Brookings Institution. Caroline Harper is Associate Director of the Chronic Poverty Re ...

Deepa Narayan is former Senior Advisor in the Poverty Reduction and Economic Management Network of the World Bank. Isabel Ortiz ...

Acknowledgements This volume is the result of over two years of UNICEF’s work on multidimensional child poverty and inequality. ...

Introduction hile poverty reduction has become a central feature of the international development agenda, the 21st century start ...

these matters. Papers in this volume discuss child poverty measurement, trends in global poverty and inequality, outcomes for ch ...

China, inequalities in income, wealth and others has increased. Thus, the pace of progress is unequal. New approaches show an un ...

Deepa Narayan, in “The Dynamics of Poverty,” reminds us that poverty is not only a multidimensional, but a dynamic phenomenon. S ...

Going deeper on what is needed for children’s equity, Naila Kabeer’s “Can the MDGs Provide a Pathway to Social Justice? The Chal ...

Sarah Cook, in “Combating Poverty and Inequality: Structural Change, Social Policy and Politics,” highlights some of the main me ...

children’s priority needs should have a first call on resources – a principle accepted by most families for their own children b ...

immediate priority would be to ensure the sustainability of economic recovery....Progress must be protected in an era of increas ...

crisis, there is a historical opportunity to expand social protection in developing countries. Timo Voipio, in “Social Protectio ...

Sheridan Bartlett, in “Children in Urban Poverty: Can They Get More than Small Change?,” highlights the plight of children livin ...

two paltry percentage points for those in the bottom quintile in 2007 under PPP-adjusted exchange rates. Using market exchange r ...