Global child poverty and well-being : measurement, concepts, policy and action / edited by Alberto Minujin, Shailen Nandy.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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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