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Child Poverty: A review - Bruce Bradbury

Policy Research Paper 20 / Bruce Bradbury. November 2003

This review addresses five main questions:

• How should we define child poverty?
• Should it be a focus of policy concern?
• How should it be measured?
• What causes it?
• What policy strategies can be used to combat it?

The central message of this paper is that child poverty is much more complicated than just looking at income levels. In determining how a child's needs are met, it is important to consider how resources are shared and used within a household, the value of other services provided (eg child care, education) and the value of parental care.

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