CHILD POVERTY AND INEQUALITY: THE WAY FORWARD

come back without their parents.” - 9 year old Ashkali boy These qualitative studies are a useful, powerful and integral part of ...

These policies may include, among others: free/low cost basic health care services, maternity benefits and the availability of l ...

References Delamonica, E., Minujin, A., Davidziuk, A., and E.D. Gonzalez (2006). “Children living in poverty: Overview of defini ...

The Dynamics of Poverty Deepa Narayan^5 oving out of Poverty Moving out of Poverty, a large-scale, 15-country comparative study, ...

Principles and methods to engage with the poor The Moving Out of Poverty study is a follow-up to the earlier Voices of the Poor ...

population is moving up or down, often with the same people falling and rising at different times. There is great variation acro ...

Figure 1. Reasons for falling into and moving out of poverty ...

 Poor people frequently confront exclusionary markets and lack resources. Despite the micro-credit revolution, poor people rema ...

one of the most frequent triggers for descent into poverty. Narrowly based targeting when large numbers are poor is ineffective. ...

Moving Out of Poverty Series Narayan, D. (2009). Moving Out of Poverty: The Promise of Empowerment and Democracy in India. Palg ...

The Changing State of Global Poverty Laurence Chandy and Geoffrey Gertz^6 racking global poverty Official estimates of global po ...

Poverty reduction in all parts of the world Unlike during previous decades, such as the 1980s (when the poverty rate increased i ...

Figure 1. Share of world’s poor by country category Source: Chandy and Gertz (2011b). Meanwhile, poverty is becoming increasingl ...

In 2005, more than half the world’s poor lived in stable, low- income countries. Development programs, including those for child ...

extreme poverty in their country. This is characteristic of children in a number of emerging economies, where poverty is still p ...

While the logistics of distributing cash to poor populations would not be without challenges, recent advances in biometric ident ...

Escaping Poverty Traps – Children and Chronic Poverty Caroline Harper, Hanna Alder and Paola Pereznieto^7 hronic poverty and dev ...

The drivers of chronic poverty Chronic poverty is distinguishable by its duration and multidimensionality. Chronically poor peop ...

survival but does not facilitate asset accumulation or fund children’s education. Children are disproportionately affected by ch ...

20158 , increasing the risk to the known dangers of early pregnancy and forgone educational opportunities. 60,000 to 70,000 girl ...