Child poverty
- Poverty is forcing families to place their children in care in Viet Nam
- United Nations Children's Fund, 2007
- This report provides an overview of a study that examined the systems of institutional and alternative care in Viet Nam for vulnerable children who do not live with their biological parents. It outlines the main findings and recommend...
- Essays on child poverty in South Africa: how effective are government initiatives for poor children?
- J. Monson; K. Hall; C. Smith; M. Shung-King / Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, 2006
- The South African Child Gauge provides an annual snapshot of the situation of children in South Africa, and of progress towards realising children’s rights. The 2006 issue focuses on children and poverty. Features include a discu...
- Reducing child poverty in OECD countries requires both work and welfare: findings from a comparative analysis
- P. Whiteford; W. Adema / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2007
- What strategies are most effective in reducing child poverty in developed countries? This paper examines the effects of, and appropriate balance between, two different approaches to reducing child poverty in OECD countries: a ‘b...
- Tackling child labour in Cambodia
- Understanding Children's Work, Innocenti Research Centre, 2006
- Child labour constitutes a key obstacle to achieving universal primary education and other Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This report provides an overview of child labour in Cambodia, its extent and nature, its determinants, and...
- Agriculture and poverty are key determinants of national child labour rates
- J. Fares; D. Raju / World Bank, 2007
- This background paper to the 2007 World Development Report presents a comparative study of child labour across 65 developing countries. Drawing on data originally obtained from household sample surveys conducted between 1993 and 2003,...
- Effectiveness of targeted cash transfer programmes
- A. Barrientos; J. DeJong / Consortium for Street Children, 2006
- Can cash transfer programmes targeted at children be effective in reducing childhood poverty? This article examines the effectiveness of three types of cash transfer programmes. These are comprised of child support grants in South Afr...
- Call for papers and conference: Rethinking Poverty and Children in the New Millennium, Oslo, Norway, 17-19 September 2007
- Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, 2007
- The Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) and Childwatch International Research Network is arranging an academic workshop on the subject "Rethinking Poverty and Children in the New Millennium: Linking Research and Policy", ...
- Policy interventions in fighting child poverty
- M. Lyytikainen; N. Jones; S. Huttly; T. Abramsky / Young Lives, 2007
- This paper explores the ability of children living in poverty to access multiple basic services. The study draws on a sample of over 8,000 children in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. The authors argue that children denied ac...
- What the children say: experiences of the migrant children from Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, India and Ghana
- J. Anarfi; S. Gent; I. Hashim / Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2006
- There is a significant gap between how children see their own experiences of migration and the way that child migrants are often represented. This report presents accounts from 16 children from Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, India and Ghan...
- Almost half of Mozambican children still live in poverty
- United Nations Children's Fund, 2006
- Mozambique has made significant progress since the end of the civil war, particularly in terms of post-war reconstruction, macroeconomic stabilisation, economic recovery and the rapid reduction of poverty. Despite notable improvements...
- Poverty is forcing families to place their children in care in Viet Nam
- United Nations Children's Fund, 2007
- This report provides an overview of a study that examined the systems of institutional and alternative care in Viet Nam for vulnerable children who do not live with their biological parents. It outlines the main findings and recommend...
- Essays on child poverty in South Africa: how effective are government initiatives for poor children?
- J. Monson; K. Hall; C. Smith; M. Shung-King / Children's Institute, University of Cape Town, 2006
- The South African Child Gauge provides an annual snapshot of the situation of children in South Africa, and of progress towards realising children’s rights. The 2006 issue focuses on children and poverty. Features include a discu...
- Reducing child poverty in OECD countries requires both work and welfare: findings from a comparative analysis
- P. Whiteford; W. Adema / Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 2007
- What strategies are most effective in reducing child poverty in developed countries? This paper examines the effects of, and appropriate balance between, two different approaches to reducing child poverty in OECD countries: a ‘b...
- Tackling child labour in Cambodia
- Understanding Children's Work, Innocenti Research Centre, 2006
- Child labour constitutes a key obstacle to achieving universal primary education and other Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). This report provides an overview of child labour in Cambodia, its extent and nature, its determinants, and...
- Agriculture and poverty are key determinants of national child labour rates
- J. Fares; D. Raju / World Bank, 2007
- This background paper to the 2007 World Development Report presents a comparative study of child labour across 65 developing countries. Drawing on data originally obtained from household sample surveys conducted between 1993 and 2003,...
- Effectiveness of targeted cash transfer programmes
- A. Barrientos; J. DeJong / Consortium for Street Children, 2006
- Can cash transfer programmes targeted at children be effective in reducing childhood poverty? This article examines the effectiveness of three types of cash transfer programmes. These are comprised of child support grants in South Afr...
- Call for papers and conference: Rethinking Poverty and Children in the New Millennium, Oslo, Norway, 17-19 September 2007
- Comparative Research Programme on Poverty, 2007
- The Comparative Research Programme on Poverty (CROP) and Childwatch International Research Network is arranging an academic workshop on the subject "Rethinking Poverty and Children in the New Millennium: Linking Research and Policy", ...
- Policy interventions in fighting child poverty
- M. Lyytikainen; N. Jones; S. Huttly; T. Abramsky / Young Lives, 2007
- This paper explores the ability of children living in poverty to access multiple basic services. The study draws on a sample of over 8,000 children in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. The authors argue that children denied ac...
- What the children say: experiences of the migrant children from Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, India and Ghana
- J. Anarfi; S. Gent; I. Hashim / Development Research Centre on Migration, Globalisation and Poverty, University of Sussex, 2006
- There is a significant gap between how children see their own experiences of migration and the way that child migrants are often represented. This report presents accounts from 16 children from Bangladesh, Burkina Faso, India and Ghan...
- Almost half of Mozambican children still live in poverty
- United Nations Children's Fund, 2006
- Mozambique has made significant progress since the end of the civil war, particularly in terms of post-war reconstruction, macroeconomic stabilisation, economic recovery and the rapid reduction of poverty. Despite notable improvements...
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