Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/20348 
Year of Publication: 
2004
Series/Report no.: 
IZA Discussion Papers No. 1113
Publisher: 
Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA), Bonn
Abstract: 
The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries – the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and Ireland. Do all these countries really stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted to address the problem? ?Poverty? is interpreted broadly and hence the available cross-national evidence on educational disadvantage and teenage births is considered alongside that on low household income. Likewise, discussion of policy initiatives ranges across a number of areas of government activity.
Subjects: 
poverty
children
English-speaking countries
JEL: 
J13
H53
I32
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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