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Child Poverty in English-Speaking Countries
The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries - U.S., Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the U.K. and Ireland. It is sometimes assumed ...

Children and the Transition to the Market Economy: Safety Nets and Social Policies in Central and Eastern Europe

Children and the Transition to the Market Economy: Safety nets and social policies in Central and Eastern Europe - Summary

Children and the Transition to the Market Economy: Safety nets and social policies in Central and Eastern Europe - Summary (Russian)

Children at Risk in Romania: Problems old and new
This paper has three parts. The first examines the problems of Romanian children at risk in their natural families; the second analyses the conditions ...

Children of International Migrants in Indonesia, Thailand, and the Philippines: A review of evidence and policies
This paper considers three groups of children affected by international migration: (i) children left behind by international labour migrants from the ...

The Decline of Infant Mortality in Europe, 1800-1950: Four national case studies
The basic facts about the secular decline of infant mortality in Europe have been known for nearly a century. Regristration series show that the levels ...

Ecuador: Crisis, adjustment and social policy in the 1980s

L'enregistrement à la naissance : un droit pour commencer
Le présent Digest étudie l’enregistrement de la naissance, un droit humain fondamental, qui est aussi la clé d’autres droits à l’éducation, aux soins ...

Family and Parenting Support: Policy and Provision in a Global Context
This publication seeks to develop a research agenda on family support and parenting support globally. An integrated and life-course approach to children ...

Government Expenditures for Children and their Families in Advanced Industrialized Countries, 1960-85

The Health Sector and Social Policy Reform in the Philippines since 1985

Innocenti Social Monitor 2009. Child Well-being at a Crossroads: Evolving challenges in Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States
The evolving and diverging challenges for the well-being of children after two decades of transition are examined. Following a long period of sustained ...

Marital Splits and Income Changes: Evidence for Britain
The relationship between marital splits and personal income changes is of great relevance to social policy. The aim of this paper is to provide new longitudinal ...

Poverty, Inequality and Policy Affecting Vulnerable Groups in Moldova
This paper analyzes the changes that have intervened in the field of income poverty and human poverty since the onset of the transition in Moldova. With ...

Public Policy and Social Conditions
In the early 1990s considerable attention was given to the issues of stabilization, privatization, taxation and labour market adjustment in the Eastern ...

Public Policy and Social Conditions (Russian version)
In the early 1990s considerable attention was given to the issues of stabilization, privatization, taxation and labour market adjustment in the Eastern ...

El registro de nacimiento: el derecho a tener derechos
Este número del Innocenti Digest se está dedicado al tema del registro de nacimiento, un derecho humano fundamental que abre el camino a los demás derechos, ...

Social Policy and Child Poverty: Hungary since 1945

Strengthening Child Protection Systems for Unaccompanied Migrant Children in Mozambique: A case study of the border town of Ressano Garcia
This research sets out to understand the why, how and with whom of rural-urban internal migration of children to Ressano Garcia, a border town between ...

Targeting Social Assistance in a Transition Economy: the Mahallas in Uzbekistan
Falling output and living standards have pushed countries in transition from the socialist system to re-consider how best to target public resources on ...

Transition économique et coûts sociaux: la condition de l’enfance dans les pays d’Europe centrale et orientale

Transizione economica e costi sociali: la condizione dell'infanzia nei paesi dell'Est

Übergang zur Marktwirtschaft und soziale Folgen: zur Lage der Kinder in Ost- und Mittleeuropa

Unconditional Government Social Cash Transfers in Africa Do Not Increase Fertility: Issue Brief
A common perception surrounding the design and implementation of social cash transfers is that those targeted to families with young children will incentivize ...

Социальный мониторинг "Инноченти",2009 год:Благополучие ребенка:переломный момент.Динамика проблем в Центральной и Восточной Европе и СНГ
По прошествии почти двух десятилетий переходного периода регион ЦВЕ/СНГ по-прежнему находится в состоянии перемен. После продолжительного периода устойчивого ...