Profiling Child Poverty in Four WAEMU Countries: A Comparative Analysis Based on the Multidimensional Poverty Approach

2010 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kossi Agbeviade Djoke ◽  
Ayawo Djadou ◽  
Ammll d'Almeida ◽  
Rachidatou Ruffino
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Multidimensional Poverty

scholarly journals An Integrated Framework for Child Poverty and Well-Being Measurement: Reconciling Theories

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mario Biggeri ◽  
Jose Antonio Cuesta
Keyword(s):  
Capability Approach ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Multidimensional Poverty ◽  
Integrated Approach ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Illustrative Case ◽  
Integrated Framework ◽  
Egyptian Children ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Capability Approach

Abstract Multidimensional child poverty (MDCP) and well-being measures are increasingly developed in the literature. Much more effort has gone to highlight the differences across measurement approaches than to stress the multiple conceptual and practical similarities across measures. We propose a new framework, the Integrated Framework for Child Poverty—IFCP––that combines three main conceptual approaches, the Capability Approach, Human Rights, and Basic Needs into an integrated bio-ecological framework. This integrated approach aims to bring more clarity about the concept and dynamics of multidimensional poverty and well-being and to disentangle causes from effects, outcomes from opportunities, dynamic from static elements, and observed from assumed behaviours. Moreover, the IFCP explains the MDCP dynamics that link the resources (goods and services), to child capabilities (opportunities) and achieved functionings (outcomes), and describes how these are mediated by the individual, social and environmental conversion factors as specified in the capability approach. Access to safe water is taken as a conceptual illustrative case, while the extended measurement of child poverty and well-being among Egyptian children ages 0 to 5 as an empirical example using IFCP. The proposed framework marks a step forward in understanding child poverty and well-being multidimensional linkages and suggesting desirable features and data requirements of MDCP and well-being measures.

scholarly journals The political economy of multidimensional child poverty measurement: a comparative analysis of Mexico and Uganda

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (2) ◽  
pp. 117-134
Author(s):  
Jose Cuesta ◽  
Mario Biggeri ◽  
Gonzalo Hernandez-Licona ◽  
Ricardo Aparicio ◽  
Yedith Guillén-Fernández
Keyword(s):  
Political Economy ◽  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Poverty Measurement ◽  
The Political

scholarly journals Child Poverty, Child Maintenance and Interactions with Social Assistance Benefits Among Lone Parent Families: a Comparative Analysis

2019 ◽  
Vol 49 (1) ◽  
pp. 19-39 ◽  
Author(s):  
MIA HAKOVIRTA ◽  
CHRISTINE SKINNER ◽  
HEIKKI HIILAMO ◽  
MERITA JOKELA
Keyword(s):  
Comparative Analysis ◽  
Poverty Reduction ◽  
Child Poverty ◽  
Social Assistance ◽  
Developed Countries ◽  
Social Security Systems ◽  
Lone Parent ◽  
Lone Parents ◽  
The Uk ◽  
Child Maintenance

AbstractIn many developed countries lone parent families face high rates of child poverty. Among those lone parents who do get child maintenance there is a hidden problem. States may retain all, or a proportion, of the maintenance that is paid in order to offset other fiscal costs. Thus, the potential of child maintenance to alleviate poverty among lone parent families may not be fully realized, especially if the families are also in receipt of social assistance benefits. This paper provides an original comparative analysis exploring the effectiveness of child maintenance to reduce child poverty among lone parent families in receipt of social assistance. It addresses the question of whether effectiveness is compromised once interaction effects (such as the operation of a child maintenance disregard) are taken into account in four countries Australia, Finland, Germany and the UK using the LIS dataset (2013). It raises important policy considerations and provides evidence to show that if policy makers are serious about reducing child poverty, they must understand how hidden mechanisms within interactions between child maintenance and social security systems can work as effective cost recovery tools for the state, but have no poverty reduction impact.

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