Working Paper 1. Comparative Perspectives on Child Poverty: A Review of Poverty Measures.

From:
Department for International Development
Published
1 January 2002
Document Type:
Working Paper
Theme:
Social Change
Authors:
White, H., Leavy, J., Masters, A.

Abstract

The purpose of this paper is to discuss the measures of child welfare that are available and how appropriate they are to defined needs. We are concerned primarily with child welfare outcomes. But good monitoring systems collect data on both outcomes and determinants, so there is discussion of determinants also. We begin with a brief discussion on what we mean by poverty before moving to a comparison of approaches to measuring child poverty in developed and developing countries (parts 3 and 4 respectively). Part 5 concludes.

Citation

ISBN 1-904427-00-6, 36 pp.

Working Paper 1. Comparative Perspectives on Child Poverty: A Review of Poverty Measures.

Published 1 January 2002
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