Child Poverty in the Developing World

This report presents the first ever scientific measurement of the extent and depth of child poverty in developing regions. This measurement is based upon internationally agreed definitions arising from the international framework of child rights.

Indicators of severe deprivation of basic human need for shelter, sanitation, safe water, information, health, education and food were constructed using survey data on nearly 1.2 million children in 46 countries collected mainly during the late 1990's. This is the largest, most accurate survey sample of children ever assembled.

David Gordon is Professor of Social Justice and Director of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research at the University of Bristolat the University of Bristol.

Shailen Nandy is a member of the Townsend Centre for International Poverty Research at the University of Bristol.

Christina Pantazis is Head of the Centre for the Study of Poverty and Social Justice in the School for Policy Studies.

Dr Simon Pemberton is a Birmingham Fellow jointly appointed to the Schools of Law and Social Policy at the University of Birmingham. Simon completed his PhD in 2004 at the University of Bristol. In 2005, he was awarded an ESRC Post Doctoral Fellowship to develop his doctoral work on social harm. He has published a widely on the notion of social harm and is currently researching aspects of social harm caused by social structures.