Child Welfare in Developing Countries

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Cockburn, John (Editor), Kabubo-Mariara, Jane (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2010.
• Subjects: Economics.; Management science.; International economics.; Economic policy.; Development economics.; Social structure.; Social inequality.; Development Economics.; Economics, general.; Social Structure, Social Inequality.; Economic Policy.; International Economics.

What 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...

Table of Contents:

• Child 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.