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Multidimensional Child Poverty and Sustainability

A special issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050). This special issue belongs to the section "Social Ecology and Sustainability".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (1 May 2021) | Viewed by 15341

Special Issue Editors

Dr. Antonella D'Agostino

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Guest Editor
Department of Management and Quantitative Studies, University of Naples “Parthenope”,The Camilo Dagum/Tuscan Universities Research Centre, Italy
Interests: multidimensional poverty; income inequality; children’s well-being; quality of life
Dr. Laura Neri

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Guest Editor
Department Economics and Statistics, University of Siena, The Camilo Dagum /Tuscan Universities Research Centre
Interests: sustainability indicators; poverty measurement; sustainable economic growth

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Investing in children and reducing child poverty is a prerequisite for sustainable economic and social development. Sustainable Development Goal 1 (SDG1, Target 2) states: “By 2030, reduce at least by half the proportion of men, women and children of all ages living in poverty in all its dimensions according to national definitions”. Such a Target refers to a multidimensional perspective and can be understood as focusing on non-monetary aspects of poverty.

This Special Issue, aligned with SDG1, Target 2, aims to present a selection of papers on the complex phenomenon of child poverty of all stages of childhood, taking into account that child poverty has to be studied from a multidimensional perspective so that different vulnerabilities of children can be recognised and the causes that keep children trapped in poverty can be better understood in order to plan effective policies for reducing child poverty in a long-term and sustainable manner.

Research papers could address the definition of adequate indicators for child-focused poverty measurement, the definition of adequate indicators for assessing its multi-faceted nature, or empirical analyses of child poverty across time (i.e., longitudinal patterns of child poverty) or space (i.e., disaggregation by countries, regions, or rural-urban areas).

Dr. Antonella D'Agostino
Dr. Laura Neri
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • multidimensional child poverty
  • sustainability indicators
  • longitudinal/spatial modeling.

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The Heavy Burden of “Dependent Children”: An Italian Story
by Gianni Betti, Francesca Gagliardi and Laura Neri
Sustainability 2021, 13(17), 9905; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13179905 - 3 Sep 2021
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This paper analyses multidimensional fuzzy monetary and non-monetary deprivation in households with children by using two different definitions: households with children under 14 years old, and the EU definition of households with dependent children. Eight dimensions of non-monetary deprivation were found using 34 [...] Read more.
This paper analyses multidimensional fuzzy monetary and non-monetary deprivation in households with children by using two different definitions: households with children under 14 years old, and the EU definition of households with dependent children. Eight dimensions of non-monetary deprivation were found using 34 items from the EU-SILC 2016 survey. Dealing with subpopulations, it is essential to compute standard errors for the presented estimators. Thus, a relevant added value of the paper is fuzzy poverty measures and associated standard errors, which were also computed. Moreover, a comparison was made between the measures obtained concerning the two subpopulations across countries. With a focus on Italy, an Italian macro-region is presented. Full article
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Children and Multidimensional Poverty: Four Measurement Strategies
by Jakob Dirksen and Sabina Alkire
Sustainability 2021, 13(16), 9108; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13169108 - 14 Aug 2021
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Empirically, official multidimensional measures of poverty often show children to be the poorest age group. Such poverty measures and their analysis can be used to directly inform policies to reduce children’s multiple deprivations. This paper introduces methods to produce official national statistics on [...] Read more.
Empirically, official multidimensional measures of poverty often show children to be the poorest age group. Such poverty measures and their analysis can be used to directly inform policies to reduce children’s multiple deprivations. This paper introduces methods to produce official national statistics on multidimensional poverty that inform child-focused anti-poverty policies. In doing so, it recognises the importance of parsimonious, consistent measures, given practical constraints such as policy makers’ time. The paper does not recommend constructing several disjoint poverty measures which cannot be straightforwardly interpreted and used alongside one another, as these may create confusion or dilute policy attention. To create a compact and high-information measurement platform, the paper introduces four measurement strategies that have been used to directly uncover policy-relevant data on children’s experience of multidimensional poverty, and that are consistent with official population-level statistics. The four are as follows: (1) Include children’s deprivations as indicators of multidimensional poverty in national measures. (2) Disaggregate multidimensional poverty indices and their associated information platform to compare children and adults. (3) Analyse individual child deprivations and explore gendered and intra-household inequalities. (4) Construct an individual measure of child multidimensional poverty that is directly linked to the official national measure, but contains additional indicators across the life course of children. The paper illustrates these four strategies and the child-relevant statistics they yield, using examples from official poverty measures and previous research. It discusses the strengths and challenges of each method from conceptual, policy, and technical perspectives, and examines how they can be used for descriptive and prescriptive purposes in line with the Sustainable Development Goals. Full article
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Measuring Child Multidimensional Deprivation: A Sustainability Perspective
by Mario Biggeri and Lucia Ferrone
Sustainability 2021, 13(7), 3922; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13073922 - 1 Apr 2021
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Child multidimensional deprivation and poverty is a key challenge to achieving sustainable development. The aim of this paper is to present and apply a new composite index for evaluating the progress towards eradicating child poverty: the Child Multidimensional Deprivation Index (CMDI). This index [...] Read more.
Child multidimensional deprivation and poverty is a key challenge to achieving sustainable development. The aim of this paper is to present and apply a new composite index for evaluating the progress towards eradicating child poverty: the Child Multidimensional Deprivation Index (CMDI). This index stems from the foundational literature on multidimensional child poverty that is rooted in the work started by UNICEF and based on the seven core dimensions of multidimensional child deprivation, while considering two additional dimensions of environmental sustainability. The CMDI applies a novel method of aggregation that allows for flexibility of substitution between dimensions, therefore overcoming some of the limitations of conventional indices. Results for 24 countries show that most countries experienced a decrease in multidimensional deprivation in the years between 2010 and 2016, but some of the poorest countries saw an increase in deprivation. Additionally, in several countries, the decrease in child deprivation was small. Results also show that investment in social spending is associated with a lower level of deprivation. Investment in the social sector is crucial to achieving this goal and preventing the negative effects of economic and other types of crisis. Full article
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Public Policies of Welfare State and Child Poverty in the European Union
by Angeles Sánchez and María Navarro
Sustainability 2021, 13(5), 2725; https://doi.org/10.3390/su13052725 - 3 Mar 2021
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Combating child poverty is desirable to ensure equality of opportunities across children, as well as fostering the sustainability of the societal well-being for future generations. This paper focuses on the study of child poverty in the 28 Member States of the European Union [...] Read more.
Combating child poverty is desirable to ensure equality of opportunities across children, as well as fostering the sustainability of the societal well-being for future generations. This paper focuses on the study of child poverty in the 28 Member States of the European Union over the period 2008–2018. We analyse the relationship between child poverty and government social expenditure by controlling it with tax structure (ratio direct taxes over indirect taxes), economic growth and socio-demographic characteristics. For that, we rely on panel data methodology. This paper has verified that the effectiveness of the government social spending programmes to reduce child poverty also depends on the progressiveness of the country’s tax structure. Government spending on health and education programmes could be more effective in reducing child poverty in Member States with less progressive tax structure, provided they reached the average level of public spending for the whole of the European Union. By contrast, a positive relationship between child poverty and government social protection spending regardless of the tax structure of countries was found. In this case, the underlying forces that lead to less effectiveness of social protection programmes are also stronger in the less progressive Member States. Full article
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Measuring Child Poverty and Its Uncertainty: A Case Study of 33 European Countries
by Ilaria Benedetti, Gianni Betti and Federico Crescenzi
Sustainability 2020, 12(19), 8204; https://doi.org/10.3390/su12198204 - 5 Oct 2020
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Over the last few years, there has been increased interest in compiling poverty indicators for children, as well as in providing uncertainty measures that are associated with point estimates. In this paper, we provide point, variance, and interval confidence estimates of the at-risk-of-poverty [...] Read more.
Over the last few years, there has been increased interest in compiling poverty indicators for children, as well as in providing uncertainty measures that are associated with point estimates. In this paper, we provide point, variance, and interval confidence estimates of the at-risk-of-poverty rate indicator for 33 European countries. Using the 2018 EU-SILC survey, we analysed the spatial distribution of poverty by providing graphical representations at the national level. Our results reveal rates of child poverty that are higher than in the national estimates for most of the countries. By considering the computation of standard errors, we used the bootstrap method thanks to its convenient properties. It is worth noting that, for some countries, such as Finland, Belgium, and Ireland, the confidence intervals do not overlap. These results suggest differences among countries not only in terms of child poverty, but also in terms of social protection and the welfare state. Full article
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