CHILD POVERTY AND INEQUALITY: THE WAY FORWARD

Health and Social Problems (IHSP). The composite index covers 23 OECD countries and includes the following indicators: homicides ...

necessary social and economic investments; transformative social policies; enabling frameworks for peace/conflict prevention, go ...

Making the Case for Measuring Child Poverty Alberto Minujin^2 hildren experience poverty differently from adults The widely acce ...

can affect health and education which in turn may impact a child’s long term development. Measuring child poverty accordingly Th ...

Inserting child poverty and the policy discourse Child poverty is increasingly receiving the recognition that national prioritie ...

References Deaton, A., and C. Paxton (1997). “Poverty among children and the elderly in developing countries.” Research Program ...

Beyond Headcount: The Alkire-Foster Approach to Multidimensional Child Poverty Measurement Sabina Alkire and José Manuel Roche^3 ...

The identification method (ρk) identifies who is poor using two cutoffs.  First cutoff: whether a person is deprived in each ...

Informing policy Decision makers need measures to identify whether multidimensional poverty is improving or worsening and how it ...

 Breaking down by sub groups of population: for example, to compare deprivation by region, ethnicity, age, gender, urban versus ...

References Alkire, S. and J. Foster (2007). “Counting and Multidimensional Poverty Measurement.” OPHI Working Paper No. 7. Oxfor ...

A Multidimensional Approach to Measuring Child Poverty Sharmila Kurukulasuriya and Sólrún Engilbertsdóttir^4 here is a growing c ...

dependency. Poverty in childhood can cause lifelong cognitive and physical impairment, where children become permanently disadva ...

developed by Bristol University UK (Gordon et al.), which considers those who suffer from two or more deprivations as poor, and ...

 38% experience at least two or more severe deprivations of basic needs: 553,049 children. When measuring income poverty, the m ...

A commonly used international indicator of wealth is the per capita Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of a country. When looking at U ...

A comparable analysis focusing on eight countries whose population living below the international poverty line of $1.25 is in a ...

However, differences in disease burdens alone cannot explain the significant differences in health indicators for two neighborin ...

National averages: Inequities concealed The analysis has thus far focused on national averages for the 36 countries in the sampl ...

emotional deprivation is a complex task and this dimension is often overlooked. A number of countries participating in the Globa ...