Children in Angola: Poverty, Deprivation and Child Labour

Child Labour and Capability Deprivation in India

This paper explores the hypothesis that the phenomenon of child labour is explicable in terms of poverty that compels a household to keep its children out of school and put them to work in the cause of the household’s survival. In exploring the link between child labour and poverty in the Indian context, the paper advances the view that the nature of the connection is more readily apprehended i...

Child deprivation and income poverty in Ghana

Child poverty and deprivation in the UK.

There has been more than a decade of debate about the increase in child poverty during which the former Secretary of State, John Moore, announced 'the end of the line for poverty' (speech text 11 May 1989). Recently the National Children's Bureau has published an authoritative and well documented account commissioned by Unicef for a comparative study of child poverty in the industrialised count...

Child poverty and deprivation in the UK

There has been more than a decade of debate about the increase in child poverty during which the former Secretary of State, John Moore, announced 'the end of the line for poverty' (speech text 11 May 1989). Recently the National Children's Bureau has published an authoritative and well documented account commissioned by Unicef for a comparative study of child poverty in the industrialised count...

Labour income , social transfers and child poverty

This paper documents the variation in living standards of the poorest fifth of children in rich (and some middle-income) nations, with a focus on the relative importance and interaction of social transfers (net of taxes) and labour market incomes. Overall, the cross-national variation in the disposable income of disadvantaged children is comprised equally of variation in market and transfer inc...