Resources
 

Working papers

 

Pells, K. Young Lives Policy Brief, Number 3; September 2011. 
 
Sumner, A. and Mallett, R; IPC-IG Working Paper #83; August 2011.
 
 
Hailu, D. and Weeks, J; United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) Working Paper #108, ST/ESA/2011/DWP/108; July 2011.  Macroeconomic Policy for Growth and Poverty Reduction: An Application to Post-Conflict and Resource-Rich Countries
http://www.un.org/esa/desa/papers/2011/wp108_2011.pdf
 
Gertz, G. and Chandy, L; Global Economy and Development at Brookings; May 2011.
 
Badame, A., Calabrese, M., Capellan, V., Cela, B., & Macio, T. (2005). Are poverty reduction strategy papers impacting child poverty? A Nicaraguan case study. Working paper, UNICEF, New York.

http://www.unicef.org/policyanalysis/files/Are_Poverty_Reduction_Strategy_Papers_Impacting_Child_Poverty.pdf

 

Bertram, H. (2007). Overview of Child Well Being in Germany: Policy Towards a Supportive Environment for Children
http://www.unicef-irc.org/cgi-bin/unicef/download_insert.sql?PDFName=&ProductID=465&DownloadAddress=/publications/pdf/

 

Bradbury, B, Jenkins, S. P., & Micklewright, J. Child Poverty Dynamics in Seven Nations (2000)
http://www.unicef-irc.org/cgibin/unicef/download_insert.sql?PDFName=iwp78.pdf&ProductID=285&DownloadAddress=/publications/pdf/iwp78.pdf

 

Bradbury, B. & Jantti, M. (1999). Child Poverty across Industrialized Nations
http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/eps71.pdf

 

Cantó S.,O. & Mercader-Prats, M. (1998). Child Poverty in Spain: What Can Be Said?
http://www.unicef-irc.org/cgi bin/unicef/download_insert.sql?PDFName=eps66.pdf&ProductID=72&DownloadAddress=/publications/pdf/eps66.pdf

 

Chaubey, J., Walker, N., and Alichi, A. (2006). HIPCS, development assistance and children: Child survival imperatives in aid programmes. Working paper, UNICEF, New York.

http://www.unicef.org/policyanalysis/files/HIPCS_Development_Assistance_and_Children.pdf



Chen, W. & Corak, M. (2005). Child poverty and changes in child poverty in rich countries since 1990
http://www.unicef irc.org/publications/pdf/iwp_2005_02_final.pdf

 

Corak, M. (2005). Principles and practicalities in measuring child poverty for the rich countries. Discussion paper. UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre and IZA Bonn.

http://ftp.iza.org/dp1579.pdf

Corak, M., Lietz, C. & Sutherland, H. (2005) The impact of tax and transfer systems on children in the European Union
http://www.unicef-irc.org/cgi-bin/unicef/download_insert.sql?PDFName=&ProductID=379&DownloadAddress=/publications/pdf/

Corak, M., Fertig, M, & Tamm, M. (2005). A portrait of child poverty in Germany http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/iwp_2005_03_final.pdf

 

Cornia, Giovanni Andrea (1990). Child Poverty and Deprivation in Industrialized Countries: Recent Trends and Policy Options
http://www.unicef-irc.org/cgi-bin/unicef/download_insert.sql?PDFName=&ProductID=87&DownloadAddress=/publications/pdf/

 

Danziger, S & Stern, J. (1990). Causes and Consequences of Child Poverty in the United States, http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/eps10.pdf

 

 

Delamonica, E., Minujin, A., Davidziuk, A., & Gonzalez, E.D. (2006). Children living in poverty: Overview of definitions, measurements and policy. Working paper, UNICEF, New York.
http://www.unicef.org/policyanalysis/files/Children_Living_In_Poverty.pdf

 

Dupraz, J., and Relano, M. (2007). Childhood poverty in Mozambique and budgetary allocations. Working paper, UNICEF, New York.
http://www.unicef.org/videoaudio/PDFs/Childhood_Poverty_in_Mozambique_and_Budgetary_Allocations.pdf

 

Fajth, G., and Holland, K. (2007). Poverty and children: A perspective. Working paper, UNICEF, New York.
http://www.unicef.org/videoaudio/PDFs/Poverty_and_Children_a_Perspective.pdf

Gerry Redmond, Children's Perspectives on Economic Adversity: A Review of the Literature
http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/idp_2008_01.pdf

 

Hodges, A., et al (2007). Child benefits and poverty reduction: Evidence from Mongolia’s child money programme. Working paper, UNICEF, New York
http://www.unicef.org/videoaudio/PDFs/Child_Benefits_and_Poverty_Reduction_Evidence_from_Mongolia.pdf

  

Menchini, L., & Redmond, G. (2006). Child Consumption Poverty in South-Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States
http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/iwp_2006_04.pdf

 

Micklewright, J. Child Poverty in English-Speaking Countries (2003)
http://www.unicef-irc.org/cgi-bin/unicef/download_insert.sql?PDFName=&ProductID=354&DownloadAddress=/publications/pdf/

Minujin, A., and Delamonica, E. (2005). Incidence, depth and severity of children in poverty. Working paper, UNICEF, New York.
http://www.unicef.org/policyanalysis/files/Incidence_Depth_and_Severity_of_Children_In_Poverty.pdf

 

Piachaud, D. & Sutherland, H. (2000). How Effective is the British Government's Attempt to Reduce Child Poverty?
http://www.unicef-irc.org/cgi-bin/unicef/download_insert.sql?PDFName=iwp77.pdf&ProductID=268&DownloadAddress=/publications/pdf/iwp77.pdf

UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, A League Table of Child Poverty in Rich Nations (2000).
http://www.unicef-irc.org/cgi-bin/unicef/download_insert.sql?PDFName=repcard1e.pdf&ProductID=226&DownloadAddress=/publications/pdf/repcard1e.pdf

UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre. (2007). Child Poverty in Perspective, An overview of child well-being in rich countries

http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/iwp2006_03_eng.pdf

 

UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Reinvesting in Children’s Policies for the very young in South Eastern Europe and the CIS
http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/iwp_2006_01.pdf

 

UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre. Child Poverty in Perspective: An Overview of Child Well-Being in Rich Countries (2007)
http://www.unicef-irc.org/cgi-bin/unicef/download_insert.sql?PDFName=&ProductID=445&DownloadAddress=/publications/pdf/

 

Reports

 

African Child Policy Forum (2008). African Report on Child Wellbeing.

http://www.africanchildinfo.net/africanreport08/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=46&Itemid=56 

 Gordon, D., et al. (2003). Child poverty in the developing world. The Policy Press, UK

http://aa.ecn.cz/img_upload/65636e2e7a707261766f64616a737476/Child_poverty.pdf

Baschieri A. and Falkingham, J. Child Poverty in Tajikistan, Jan 2007
http://globalstudy2.googlepages.com/Tadjikistan-Child_PovertyJAN07.pdf

 

 Hague, Sarah (2008). The Child Development Index. Holding governments to account for children's wellbeing.

http://www.savethechildren.org.uk/en/docs/child-development-index.pdf

UNICEF, Child Poverty Study in fyr Macedonia

http://www.ceecis.org/mics/countries/macedonia_childpoverty.pdf

UNICEF, Childhood Poverty in Mozambique
http://www.unicef.org/media/files/Final_SITAN_English_summary.pdf

 

UNICEF, Children in Viet Nam - who and where are the poor?

          Executive Summary

          Full report

UNICEF, Emerging challenges for children in Eastern Europe and Central Asia

            http://www.ceecis.org/mics/key_findings/disparities.pdf

 

UNICEF, State of the World's Children - 2005 and 2008

http://www.unicef.org/sowc/

 

UNDP, Measuring Human Development: A Primer

http://hdr.undp.org/en/nhdr/support/primer/

 

UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Innocenti Social Monitor 2004: Economic growth and child poverty in the CEE/CIS and the Baltic states
http://www.unece.org/stats/documents/2005/06/mdg/1.e.pdf

 

UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Innocenti Social Monitor 2006: Understanding Child Poverty in South-Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Overview
http://www.unicef-irc.org/publications/pdf/ism06_overview_eng.pdf

 

UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Social welfare and family benefits in Estonia (2006)
http://www.unicef-irc.org/research/ESP/CountryReports2006/estonia_care_rep2006.pdf

 

Poverty Analysis:

 

Coudouel, A., Hentschel, J., & Wodon, T. Chapter 1: Poverty Measurement and Analysis.
http://poverty2.forumone.com/files/5467_chap1.pdf

 

Howe, G., and McKay, A.(2004). Combining quantitative ad qualitative methods in assessing chronic poverty: The case of Rwanda. DFID, Tanzania & University of Bath and ODI.
http://www.utoronto.ca/mcis/q2/papers/VI_Mckay_Howe.pdf

 

The World Bank, Measurement and Meaning: Combining quantitative and qualitative methods for the analysis of poverty and social exclusion in Latin America. (2001). Ed. Gacitua-Mario, E. & Wodon, Q. The World Bank Technical Paper No. 518.

 

Ravallion, M., and Chen, S. (2001). Measuring pro-poor growth. The World Bank Development Research Group.

            http://povlibrary.worldbank.org/files/13521_Measuring_Pro-Poor_Growth_MR.pdf

 

Articles

 

Babajanian, B. V. (2006). The Social Exclusion Framework and the Poverty Reduction Strategy in Tajikistan, Central Asian Survey, 25 (4), 403-418. http://www.informaworld.com/smpp/content~content=a777579134~db=all~jumptype=rss

 

Data Base

 

Transmonee database
http://www.unicef-irc.org/article.php?id_article=94

 

Children in internationally comparable surveys (OECD+)
http://www.unicef-irc.org/datasets/data_sets_int.html

Devinfo
http://www.devinfo.org/index.htm?IDX=1

 

Multiple Indicator Cluster Survey 3
http://www.childinfo.org/mics3_surveys.html

 

Visibility of children's issues in household surveys
http://www.unicef-irc.org/datasets/data_sets_nat.html