Handbook on Child Poverty and Inequality

Edited by Alberto Minujin, Equity for Children, The New School and Enrique Delamonica, UNICEF

‘The Handbook on Child Poverty and Inequality is a landmark. It provides a comprehensive overview of the subject, exhibits the state of knowledge, describes the history of the field and sets an agenda. It represents decades of committed research by leading child poverty researchers and professionals and contributions by emerging scholars. It will be an essential resource.’

• ContentsPART I The state of the art 1SECTION 1 Concepts and measurementsIntroduction to the Handbook on Child Poverty and Inequality 51 Brief history of child poverty measurement 152 Inequality, children, and the SDGs: a critical enquiry 393 Towards a better measurement of child poverty: relative deprivation of sociallyperceived needs and the consensual approach 574 Understanding children’s experiences of poverty in context: a localisedqualitative assessment 775 Children in monetary poor households 936 Child poverty and capabilities 1097 Quality of life and child poverty 123SECTION 2 Policies and actions8 Analysing and redressing (the myriad manifestations of) child poverty andsocio-economic and political exclusions 1399 Families as a resource in the work with disadvantaged children and largeinstitutions 14910 Child poverty, adolescents’ aspirations, and social change 16711 The vital role of cash transfers in tackling child poverty 18712 Macroeconomics and children 20713 How do we end child poverty? A policy agenda 22314 Youth at the crossroads: the challenges of unemployment, occupationalinstability and early labor force entry 237PART II Future avenues 251PART 3 FURTHER ANALYSIS15 Quantifying the policies to reduce and eliminate child poverty 25516 Fiscal equity for children: the impact of fiscal policies in reducing poverty andinequality 27117 Are the poorest families the most violent? 28518 Measuring child poverty in times of shocks and crises 30319 Examining the links between child multi-dimensional deprivation and distanceto health centres and schools 31920 Micro-projections of multidimensional child poverty in sub-Saharan Africa 33721 Child poverty in humanitarian contexts: comparing children among refugeesand host communities 36522 Children in monetary poor households and multidimensional child poverty 379PART 4 EXPANDING HORIZONS/EXPANDING MEASUREMENTS23 Rights-based policies, processes, and solutions for community public spaces,social integration, and recreational facilities for urban children in poverty 40524 Measuring gender differences in multidimensional child poverty 42925 Children with disabilities: rights, discrimination, and poverty 44126 Child poverty in conflict-caused emergencies 45927 Time resourcefulness of children: from time poverty to time availability 48128 Beyond child poverty: material and non-material deprivation 50129 We have measured child poverty; now what? Using panel data to exploretransitions to adulthood 515