CHILD POVERTY AND INEQUALITY: THE WAY FORWARD

Lustig, N. (2008) “Thought for Food: the Challenges of Coping with Soaring Food Prices.” Working Paper No. 155. Center for Globa ...

The Plundered Planet and The Bottom Billion: Why the mismanagement of nature matters for the world’s most vulnerable Paul Collie ...

distinctive feature of the bottom billion countries is that they are caught in one or another of the following traps:  The conf ...

African problem, where about 30% of the population live in landlocked, resource-scarce countries;  The trap of bad governance i ...

are the best shot that many of the countries of the bottom billion have at prosperity. Ethical behaviour is that as natural asse ...

inefficient that the return on investment can be modest. The IMF refers to this as ‘limits on absorptive capacity’. While this i ...

countries is a simple and practical way in which anyone can help to lower the costs of knowledge for these societies. There is, ...

Children in Urban Poverty: Can They Get More than Small Change? Sheridan Bartlett^23 t’s widely recognized now that the world is ...

And it’s not just about money. Keetie Roelen and Geranda Notten, in the UNICEF’s Child Poverty Insights August 2011 issue, point ...

communities, with their relatively high numbers of children, it is not unrealistic to estimate that one out of every four childr ...

exclusion present some different and particular challenges. The same standards used when analyzing rural poverty cannot always b ...

recreational facilities, for instance, all become more critical in the context of high density. There may be a latrine no more t ...

unsafe cooking equipment and lighting in crowded rooms, dilapidated housing, an absence of safe play space often occur in cluste ...

The rate of movement is especially high for children and young people, who often move to urban areas on their own. In sub- Sahar ...

in data collection should add missing questions to their surveys (Censuses, Demographic and Health Surveys-DHS, Multiple Indicat ...

tenure and inadequate living conditions underpin and exacerbate the violation of many other basic rights for children, but for c ...

Tacoli, C. and R. Mabala (2010). “Exploring mobility and migration in the context of rural—urban linkages: why gender and genera ...

Global Inequality: Beyond the Bottom Billion A Rapid Review of Income Distribution in 141 Countries Isabel Ortiz and Matthew Cum ...

other inequalities; precisely, UNICEF supports a multidimensional approach to poverty, based not only on income poverty, but on ...

we provide a detailed summary of the methodology used, along with the main challenges and caveats regarding our estimations at t ...