...Amélia Bastos; Carla Machado Purpose While the literature commonly analyses child poverty and social exclusion data covering a single year, less is known about children who fall in and out of poverty over a longer period. The present research intends to address this gap by investigating...

...Luigi Aldieri; Concetto Paolo Vinci Purpose The purpose of this paper is to analyze the correlation between the educational level and the number of children in Italy, where a very low fertility rate may be observed. Design/methodology/approach Since the number of children ever born is a count...

...Bruce Bradbury Conventional consumer equivalence scales measure the cost of children (and other household living arrangements) but not their benefits. Since many people choose to have children, these costs must be outweighed by other benefits. This paper considers these issues of demographic choice...

... summarised and general information provided about the survey. The results are then used to consider several aspects of inequality in relation to sons and daughters, to gauge the influence of wives on the welfare of their children and to compare the socio‐economic status of wives in comparison to husbands...

...Clem Tisdell Theories of the family are outlined and related to the socioeconomic deprivation of females and children giving Indian illustrations. The importance of Sen’s entitlement approach is critically discussed in this context. Although international bodies, such as the UNDP, recognise...

...Brent McClintock The use of abusive child labor in developing countries is investigated in terms of its violation of the fundamental human rights of children and its role in international production and trade. Evaluates efforts to eliminate the use of child labor in the knotted carpet and soccer...

...Marilyn Waring Edited by Lin   Lean Lim . The Sex Sector – The Economic and Social Bases of Prostitution in Southeast Asia . International Labour Organisation , 1998 . , ISBN: ISBN: 92‐2‐109522‐3 © MCB UP Limited 2000 --> Employment Discrimination Children...

...Y.S. Brenner Plagiarizes Jonathan Swift to produce a tongue‐in‐cheek proposal for the relief of the burden of children to the poor and so create benefits for the state. Claims satirically that the scheme would solve a number of societal problems. Third, whereas the maintenance of children from...

... on the schooling of an individual child in Pakistan. © MCB UP Limited 1995 Children Developing countries Pakistan Schools Realizing that the benefits of education to the society far exceeds those to the individuals, policy‐makers in almost all the countries of the world have devoted...

...Zhu Yongxin; Wu Rongxian Recently in China there has been a problem of “excessiveness of education”, i.e. parents′ education of their children exceeds certain limits. This is considered under three categories: (1) excessive attachment to children in daily life; (2) excessive care for children′s...

...Marcia Lee Agee; Roger W. Walker “Feminisation of poverty” is a phrase heard frequently today, not only in the popular press, but also in professional groups concerned with women. It suggests that women living alone with their children bear a disproportionate share of the poverty burden...