Journal Article

Poor Children in Rich Households and Vice Versa: A Blurred Picture or Hidden Realities?

Published on 10 April 2017

An expanding evidence base suggests that children experiencing monetary and multidimensional poverty are not the same. This article breaks new ground by providing a unique mixed methods investigation of drivers of child poverty mismatch in Ethiopia and Vietnam, considering the role of measurement error and individualistic and structural factors.

The analysis capitalises on large-scale secondary quantitative panel data and combines this with purposively collected primary qualitative data in both countries. It finds that factors at the household and structural level can mediate the effects of monetary poverty in terms of multidimensional poverty and vice versa, but that the size and sign of these effects are specific to place and time. The policy mix aiming to reduce all forms of child poverty need to be targeted on the basis of a multidimensional assessment of poverty and reflect the complex and contextspecific interactions between determinants of child poverty.

Authors

Keetie Roelen

IDS Honorary Associate

Publication details

published by
Springer
authors
Roelen, Keetie
journal
The European Journal of Development Research, volume 30, issue 2
doi
10.1057/s41287-017-0082-7
language
English

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