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100 1 _aCockburn, John.
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245 1 0 _aChild Welfare in Developing Countries
_h[electronic resource] /
_cedited by John Cockburn, Jane Kabubo-Mariara.
264 1 _aNew York, NY :
_bSpringer New York,
_c2010.
300 _a350p. 34 illus.
_bonline resource.
336 _atext
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505 0 _aChild Welfare in Developing Countries: An Introduction -- Child Welfare in Developing Countries: An Introduction -- Multidimensional Child Poverty Analysis -- Multidimensional Poverty, Survival and Inequality Among Kenyan Children -- Profiling Child Poverty in Four WAEMU Countries: A Comparative Analysis Based on the Multidimensional Poverty Approach -- Multidimensional Poverty AmongWest African Children: Testing for Robust Poverty Comparisons -- Impact Evaluation -- Free Primary Education in Kenya: An Impact Evaluation Using Propensity Score Methods -- Productive Safety Net Program and Children’s Time Use Between Work and Schooling in Ethiopia -- Family Allowances and Child School Attendance: An Ex-ante Evaluation of Alternative Schemes in Uruguay -- The Impact of the Increase in Food Prices on Child Poverty and the Policy Response in Mali.
520 _aWhat factors affect child welfare? How can policy improve child welfare? In developing countries, there has been relatively little empirical work on the analysis and measurement of child poverty. Further, poverty has many dimensions, including mortality, morbidity, hunger, illiteracy, lack of fixed housing and lack of resources, and cannot be assessed with a single measurement method. Based on original research in Africa and South America, and using a multidimensional poverty indicator approach, this book identifies the existence of inequalities in child welfare, analyzes their sources, and evaluates the impacts of policy responses to those inequalities. Topics considered include monetary poverty, asset poverty, nutrition, mortality, access to education and school attendance, child labor and access to health services. The book’s findings demonstrate that while current government programs offering financial assistance, supplementary food, and free or subsidized education and health care have a positive impact on child welfare, these outcomes can still improve, and proposes policy prescriptions towards this end. The book will be of use to poverty and policy researchers, professionals in international development, and graduate students interested in poverty and inequality.
650 0 _aEconomics.
650 0 _aDevelopment Economics.
650 0 _aEconomic policy.
650 0 _aInternational economics.
650 1 4 _aEconomics/Management Science.
650 2 4 _aEconomic Policy.
650 2 4 _aDevelopment Economics.
650 2 4 _aInternational Economics.
700 1 _aKabubo-Mariara, Jane.
_eeditor.
710 2 _aSpringerLink (Online service)
773 0 _tSpringer eBooks
776 0 8 _iPrinted edition:
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856 4 0 _uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-6275-1
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