Global child poverty and well-being : measurement, concepts, policy and action/
Alberto Minujin Z; Shailen Nandy
- London: Policy Press, 2012
- 591 p.: ill.; 24 cm
10.Assessing child well-being in developing countries: making policies work for children "Foreword by Sir Richard Jolly, former assistant secretary general of the United Nations"--Cover.
GLOBAL CHILD POVERTY AND WELL-BEING; Contents; Notes on contributors; Acknowledgements; Foreword; 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 childrenEquity-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 measurementAn 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 forward9. 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
This book brings together theoretical, methodological and policy-relevant contributions by leading researchers on international child poverty.