In this paper, we explore the conditions of childhood that can lead to poverty throughout the
lifecourse and affect transfers of poverty to the next generation. The largely inconclusive …

Youth poverty is a serious global problem, not least because of the large numbers of youth
and children living in absolute poverty in developing countries. In many contexts, youth are …

Initial work done by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) suggests that the tightest
possible definition of chronic poverty would be intergenerationally transmitted (IGT) poverty …

C hildren are often hardest hit by poverty: it causes lifelong damage to their minds and
bodies. They are therefore likely to pass poverty on to their children, perpetuating the …

Child poverty is a central and present part of global life, with hundreds of millions of children
around the world enduring tremendous suffering and deprivation of their most basic needs …

Does childhood poverty lead to adult poverty? Evidence shows childhood is a sensitive
period for developing cognition, physical vitality and personality. This is traceable to specific …

The distinguishing feature of chronic poverty is its long duration. It might be argued that the
most extreme form of chronic poverty is that which persists over an entire course of life or …

This report builds and expands upon the analyses of Report Card 6 which considered
relative income poverty affecting children and policies to mitigate it. Report Card 7 provides …

Child poverty and the well-being of children is an important policy issue throughout the
industrialised world. Some 47 million children in'rich'countries live in families so poor that …

This paper provides an overview of the meaning of'chronic poverty,'and identifies
frameworks for analysing it, as understood by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) …