Measuringchild poverty
New league tables of child povertyin the world’s rich countries
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Which countriesare included?
Data on child deprivation ratesare drawn rom the 2009 roundo the
European Union Statisticson Income and Living Conditions
and are thereore available or 29countries, i.e. all 27 countries othe European Union plus Norwayand Iceland. Most o these (23out o 29) are also members othe Organisation or EconomicCo-operation and Development(OECD). The exceptions areBulgaria, Cyprus, Latvia,Lithuania, Malta and Romania,which are EU member states,but not members o the OECD.Data on relative child povertyrates are also available or sixadditional OECD countries(Australia, Canada, Japan,New Zealand, Switzerland, andthe United States). The analysiso relative child poverty thereoreincludes the ollowing 35countries:Australia, Austria, Belgium,Bulgaria, Canada, Cyprus,Czech Republic, Denmark,Estonia, Finland, France,Germany, Greece, Hungary,Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Japan,Latvia, Lithuania, Luxembourg,Malta, the Netherlands,New Zealand, Norway, Poland,Portugal, Romania, Slovakia,Slovenia, Spain, Sweden,Switzerland, United Kingdom,United States.
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was written by Peter Adamson.Two background papers rom the UNICEF
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support this Report:1. Bradshaw, J., Y. Chzhen, C. de Neubourg, G. Main, B. Martoranoand L. Menchini (2012), ‘Relative Income Poverty among Children inRich Countries’,
Innocenti Working Paper
2012-01, UNICEF InnocentiResearch Centre, Florence.www.unice-irc.org/publications/pd/iwp_2012_01.pd2. de Neubourg, C., J. Bradshaw, Y. Chzhen, G. Main, B. Martoranoand L. Menchini (2012), ‘Child Deprivation, MultidimensionalPoverty and Monetary Poverty in Europe’,
Innocenti Working Paper
2012-02, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence.www.unice-irc.org/publications/pd/iwp_2012_02.pdThe UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre would like to acknowledge thegenerous support or
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provided by the Andorran,Belgian, Swiss and United Kingdom National Committees or UNICEF.Any part o this
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may be reely reproduced usingthe ollowing reerence:UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre (2012), ‘Measuring Child Poverty:New league tables o child poverty in the world’s rich countries’,
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, UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre, Florence.The
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series is designed to monitor and compare theperormance o economically advanced countries in securing the rightso their children.The Innocenti Research Centre (IRC) was established in Florence, Italyin 1988 to strengthen the research capability o the United NationsChildren’s Fund (UNICEF) and to support its advocacy or childrenworldwide. IRC is the dedicated research hub o the UNICEF Oce oResearch (OOR), which provides global leadership or the organization’sstrategic research agenda around children. The Oce aims to set out acomprehensive ramework or research and knowledge within theorganization, in support o its global programmes and policies. Throughstrengthening research partnerships with leading academic institutionsand development networks in both the North and South, the Oceseeks to leverage additional resources and infuence in support oeorts towards policy reorm in avour o children.The Centre's publications are contributions to a global debate on childrights and help acilitate ull implementation o the Convention on theRights o the Child in low-, middle- and high-income countries. Theviews expressed are those o the authors and researchers and do notnecessarily refect the policies or views o UNICEF.© United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), May 2012ISBN: 978-88-8912-965-4ISSN: 1605-7317UNICEF Innocenti Research CentrePiazza SS. Annunziata, 1250122 Florence, ItalyTel: (+39) 055 2033 0Fax: (+39) 055 2033 220forence@unice.orgwww.unice-irc.org
This report sets out the latest internationally comparable data onchild deprivation and relative child poverty. Taken together, thesetwo dierent measures oer the best currently available pictureo child poverty across the world’s wealthiest nations. Previous reports in this series have shown that ailure to protect children rom poverty is one o the most costly mistakes a society can make. The heaviest cost o all is borne by thechildren themselves. But their nations must also pay a very signifcant price – in reduced skills and productivity, in lower levels o health and educational achievement, in increased likelihood o unemployment and welare dependence, in the higher costs o judicial and social protection systems, and inthe loss o social cohesion.The economic argument, in anything but the shortest term, isthereore heavily on the side o protecting children rom poverty. Even more important is the argument in principle. Becausechildren have only one opportunity to develop normally in mind and body, the commitment to protection rom poverty must beupheld in good times and in bad. A society that ails to maintainthat commitment, even in difcult economic times, is a societythat is ailing its most vulnerable citizens and storing up intractable social and economic problems or the years immediately ahead. It is or these reasons that this comparative snapshot o child poverty in the industrialized nations is presented or the attention o political leaders, press and public.
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Report Card 10, Measuring Child Poverty undersöker och jämför barnfattigdom i den industrialiserade världen. 35 länder ingår i rapporten som presenteras den 29 maj 2012.
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