Global child poverty and well-being : measurement, concepts, policy and action /

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This title is an edited collection covering key issues in global child poverty.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Minujin Z., Alberto (Editor ), Nandy, Shailen (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bristol ; Chicago, IL : Policy Press, 2012.
Colección:Studies in Poverty, Inequality and Social Exclusion series.
Temas:
Poor children.
Poverty.
Enfants pauvres.
Pauvreté.
poverty.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Security.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Services & Welfare.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Social Policy.
Poor children
Poverty
Fattigdom.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 1. Introduction
  • Who is this book for?
  • Outline of the book
  • 2. Child rights, child survival and child poverty: the debate
  • Introduction
  • Outlining the case for a human rights approach to child poverty
  • Child poverty: practical obstacles to the realisation of child rights
  • Relationship between child poverty and child rights: methodological issues
  • Conclusion
  • 3. Equity begins with children
  • Growth-mediated development
  • Aggregate growth versus disaggregated reality
  • Poverty reduction must begin with children
  • Equity-mediated development
  • Ripple effects
  • Can equity be promoted?
  • Conclusion
  • 4. Measuring child poverty and deprivation
  • Introduction
  • Child poverty measurement methodology
  • Scientific measurement of child poverty
  • Scientific child poverty measurement using both deprivation and low income
  • Dynamics of poverty
  • How not to measure child poverty
  • A worked example from Mexico
  • Conclusion
  • 5. Beyond headcount: measures that reflect the breadth and components of child poverty
  • Introduction
  • Child poverty and multidimensional measurement
  • Alkire-Foster approach to multidimensional poverty measurement
  • An illustrative application: indicators of child poverty in Bangladesh
  • Under-five child poverty in Bangladesh (1997-2007)
  • Conclusion
  • 6. Defining child poverty in South Africa using the socially perceived necessities approach
  • Introduction
  • Data and methods
  • Defining socially perceived necessities
  • Discussion: challenges
  • 7. Child well-being in the US: proposal for the development of a 'Tots Index' using the human development conceptual framework
  • Introduction
  • American Human Development Index and measuring child well-being
  • Why the concern with young children?
  • Existing methodologies for measuring child well-being in an affluent country context
  • Proposing the 'Tots Index': a composite measure of young child well-being
  • Conclusion
  • 8. A snapshot of child well-being in transition countries: exploring new methods of monitoring child well-being
  • Introduction
  • Methods
  • Child well-being in Central and Eastern Europe/Commonwealth of Independent States
  • Overall picture of child well-being in Central and Eastern Europe/Commonwealth of Independent States
  • First résumé: Potential and limitations of the Child Well-Being Index
  • Ways forward
  • 9. Enhancing the fight against child poverty in the European Union: a benchmarking exercise
  • The fight against child poverty: a European Union priority
  • Child poverty and its main determinants: a framework for European Union benchmarking
  • Twenty million children are living under the poverty threshold in the European Union
  • Key determinants of child poverty: household characteristics, labour market situation of parents and the effectiveness of government intervention
  • The diagnosis
  • What happened since 2007 and the way forward
  • 10. Assessing child well-being in developing countries: making policies work for children
  • Definitions and purpose
  • A preliminary paradigm for child policies and outcomes in developing countries
  • Findings
  • Discussion
  • 11. Multidimensional child poverty in Tanzania: analysis of situation, changes and sensitivity of thresholds1
  • Introduction
  • Methodological considerations
  • Child poverty
  • Child poverty changes between 1999 and 2004/05
  • Sensitivity analysis: adapting the thresholds to the Tanzania context
  • Conclusion: child poverty in Tanzania, an intolerable but hopeful story
  • 12. A multidimensional profile of child poverty in Congo Brazzaville
  • Introduction1
  • Methodology: concepts, indicators and data
  • Patterns of deprivation within and across dimensions
  • Poverty profile
  • Conclusion.
  • 13. Multidimensional child poverty in Vietnam
  • Introduction
  • Multidimensional child poverty in Vietnam from a country-specific and child-focused perspective
  • Data and methodology
  • A detailed picture of child poverty in Vietnam
  • Overlap of domain poverty
  • Conclusion
  • 14. Multidimensional child deprivation in Iran
  • Introduction
  • Contextual analysis
  • Methodology and conceptual framework
  • Rationale behind the choices for the indicators in the Iranian context
  • Data analysis
  • Conclusion
  • 15. Multidimensional child poverty in Haiti1
  • Introduction
  • Overview of child poverty in Haiti
  • Deprivation and absolute poverty of children in Haiti, 2000-05
  • Child poverty and deprivation in Haiti
  • Conclusion
  • 16. Child poverty in Latin America: multiple deprivation and monetary measures combined
  • Introduction
  • Conceptual approach: the notion of child poverty
  • Measuring child poverty: the methodological approaches used in this study
  • The data: household surveys, Demographic and Health Surveys and Multiple Indicator Cluster Surveys
  • Principal results
  • The double face of child poverty: lack of resources and multiple deprivations
  • Conclusion and recommendations
  • 17. Changes in child poverty and deprivation in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia at the end of the 20th century
  • Introduction
  • Estimating child poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia
  • Child poverty and deprivation in Sub-Saharan Africa, 1995-2000
  • Gender disparities
  • Child poverty and deprivation in South Asia, 1995-2000
  • Comparing regional profiles
  • Discussion
  • Conclusion
  • 18. Utopia calling: eradicating child poverty in the United Kingdom and beyond
  • Utopia as archaeology: the limitations of current proposals
  • Utopia as architecture: a wider view
  • Beyond the nation state
  • 19. Continuity and change in poor children's lives: evidence from Young Lives
  • Introduction
  • Design of Young Lives research
  • Conceptual and analytical framework
  • Analytical framework
  • Key findings and trends
  • Intergenerational transmission of poverty
  • Conclusion
  • 20. Policy implications of multidimensional poverty measurement in Morocco
  • Background
  • Poverty measurement practice in Morocco
  • A breakthrough in international child poverty measurement
  • Methodology used in the present research
  • Source of data
  • Summary of findings by sociodemographic characteristics
  • Policy implications
  • Further work to be done
  • 21. A multidimensional response to tackling child poverty and disparities: reflections from the Global Study on Child Poverty and Disparities
  • Introduction
  • Defining child poverty
  • Guiding principles
  • Forging strategic partnerships
  • Using a multidimensional lens
  • Highlighting the importance of equity
  • Addressing impacts of the global economic crisis
  • Linking budgets to child outcomes
  • Key policy messages
  • Advocating for change
  • 22. Investment in social security: a possible United Nations model for child benefit?
  • Consequences of child poverty and multiple deprivation
  • Using child rights to construct policies to defeat child poverty
  • International responsibility for funding
  • A currency transfer tax: new resources for child benefit and social security
  • 23. Conclusion.

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