Contents
Acknowledgments i
Introduction 1
Isabel Ortiz, Louise Moreira Daniels and Sólrún Engilbertsdóttir
Making the Case for Child Poverty 14
Alberto Minujin
Beyond Headcount: The Alkire-Foster Approach to
Multidimensional Child Poverty Measurement 18
Sabina Alkire and José Manuel Roche
A Multidimensional Approach to Measuring Child Poverty 23
Sharmila Kurukulasuriya and Sólrún Engilbertsdóttir
The Dynamics of Poverty 35
Deepa Narayan
The Changing State of Global Poverty 42
Laurence Chandy and Geoffrey Gertz
Escaping Poverty Traps – Children and Chronic Poverty 48
Caroline Harper, Hanna Alder and Paola Pereznieto
Can the MDG’s Provide a Pathway to Social Justice?
The Challenge of Intersecting Inequalities 57
Naila Kabeer
Rethinking Poverty 63
Jomo Kwame Sundaram
Combating Poverty and Inequality: Structural Change,
Social Policy and Politics 69
Sarah Cook
UNICEF, Economists and Economic Policy:
Bringing Children into Development Strategies 79
Sir Richard Jolly