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6 September 2011
Published by: IDS
A specific focus on children has been called for within the development and social protection debates, for moral, economic, rights and social justice reasons.
17 June 2011
Published by: Routledge
Published in Applied Economics, this Journal article explores the empirical application of theoretical multi-dimensional welfare distribution analysis techniques to real household welfare distributions.
2 May 2011
Published by: Young Lives
Under-nutrition among children remains a serious problem in impoverished populations around the world. It is estimated to be the underlying cause of one-third of all deaths of children below the age of five years.
The project aimed to explore the short and long run impacts of imposing additional fossil fuel taxes and removing respective existing subsidies on the Vietnamese economy.
4 March 2011
Published by: Springer
As a result of the increased acknowledgement that children deserve a special focus in poverty measurement, the range of measures aiming to capture the specific nature of child poverty and vulnerability has increased in size and scope over the last few years.
3 January 2011
This study presents a novel way to separately investigate trends during the past decade regarding the impact of extensive and intensive disasters on child welfare and development. Studies covered a broad variety of countries located in different geographical regions and exposed to different types of hazard.
1 January 2011
Published by: IDS
This report discusses how the lack of adequate policies and institutional programmes of social protection for migrants in general, and the residence-based nature of the current social policy framework in particular, create multiple vulnerabilities and social exclusion among rural-urban migrants in Vietnam.
1 January 2011
Published by: UNDP
As Viet Nam's economy is developing rapidly, greenhouse gas emissions from growth in the use of fossil fuels are increasing. Energy...
This project examines a key assumption which underlies one of the main approaches to poverty reduction currently advocated and practised by many international development agencies.
1 August 2010
Published by: Springer
Despite a wide under-prioritization, the issue of child poverty has received increasing attention worldwide over the last decade. The acknowledgement in Vietnam that child-specific poverty measurement is crucial for poverty efforts directed towards children, and the current lack thereof, instigated the development of a Vietnam child poverty approach. This paper proposes a country-specific, multidimensional and outcome-based approach for the measurement of the incidence, depth and severity of child poverty.