Beyond headcount : measures that reflect the breadth and components of child poverty

<p>This paper presents a new approach to child poverty measurement that reflects the breadth and components of child poverty. The Alkire and Foster method presented in this paper seeks to answer the question ‘who is poor’ by considering the intensity of each child’s poverty. Once children are...

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Main Authors: Alkire, S, Roche, J
Format: Working paper
Language:English
Published: Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) 2011