Child poverty: the ‘fuel poverty’ dimension

Child and youth fuel poverty: assessing the known and unknown

The broad health effects of fuel poverty include both the physiological and psychosocial effects of exposure to adverse indoor temperatures. Fuel poverty poses a greater risk to groups spending more time at home, including older people, people with disabilities or chronic illness, and families with young children. To date, fuel poverty research has focused on the first two of these groups, whil...

Child Poverty

UNRISD’s recent publication, Combating Poverty and Inequality, attempts to explain how poverty reduction depends crucially on the interconnections among economic development, social policy and politics. It emphasizes that poverty and inequality cannot be addressed by narrow approaches to social protection or by economic growth alone. Instead, there is a need for new directions in macroeconomic ...

Targeting and child poverty

We examine the relative merits of targeting children within the household through price subsidies and cash transfers. To do so, we model the behavior of a household composed of one adult and one child. We then show that ‘favorable’distortions from price subsidies may allow redistributing toward the child and then derive the conditions under which this redistributive scheme is more e¢ cient than...

Child Poverty in Sweden

The purpose of the study is to get an in-depth knowledge about the implications of child poverty on overall child development. This study aims to co-relate between child development and social challenges of the poor children in Sweden with a brief mention about the same around the world and in Nepal where I came from. This paper also establishes that holistic development of a child is influence...

Understanding fuel expenditure: Fuel poverty and spending on fuel