Child poverty
ALTERNATIVE LABELS
Poor children
NARROWER TERMS
Report
Poverty in Australia 2023: who is affected
This report uses data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics to identify the groups facing the highest risk of poverty and the groups of people most likely to be living in poverty.
Report
Survival of the richest: how we must tax the super-rich now to fight inequality
Other authors
Dana Abed, Carlos Brown, Anthony Kamande, Max Lawson, Susana Ruiz
This report focuses on how taxing the rich is vital to addressing skyrocketing inequality. It shows how taxing the rich could set the world clearly on the path to a more equal, sustainable world that is free of poverty.
Report
Te Tai Waiora: Wellbeing in Aotearoa New Zealand 2022
Under the terms of the Public Finance (Wellbeing) Amendment Act, Treasury is required to provide an independent report on the state of wellbeing in New Zealand at least every four years. Te Tai Waiora is the first of these reports.
Evaluation
New Zealand healthy school lunches programme: impact evaluation
Other authors
Nick Kimber, H. Clarke, Nancy Wang, Trinh Nguyen Chau, Paige Winthrop
This evaluation was commissioned to assess the impact of the New Zealand Healthy School Lunches programme on secondary school-aged learners’ wellbeing, as well as the impact of the programme on attendance among all age groups.
Report
Poverty in Australia 2022: a snapshot
This report provides a brief overview of levels of poverty - overall and among adults and children – following the recent release of Australian Bureau of Statistics data on household incomes in 2019-20. It examines trends in poverty since 1999, and through each quarter of...
Briefing paper
The distribution of advantage in Aotearoa New Zealand: exploring the evidence
This paper is an overview of the evidence of distribution, inequality and mobility in New Zealand, including the characteristics and clustering of multiple disadvantage.
Report
Levels and trends in child mortality
This document reports the levels and trends of global child mortality for 2020.
Report
Australia and NZ tax credits for children. A 5-year comparison: 1 July 2018 – 1 July 2023
This document provides a comparison of the Australian and New Zealand family tax credits.
Evaluation
New Zealand healthy schools lunch pilot: interim evaluation
This interim evaluation report assesses the impact of the Healthy School Lunches Programme, launched by the New Zealand government in 2020.
Report
The first year of COVID-19: initial outcomes of our collective care for low-income children in Aotearoa New Zealand
This report is an attempt to understand the situations facing low-income children and young people, and their parents and caregivers, families, whānau and communities in New Zealand.
Report
Child poverty related indicators report: May 2021
This report focuses on New Zealand's child poverty trends and indicators up to and including the 2019/20 year.
Report
Child and youth wellbeing strategy
This report covers the progress made during the first ten months of the New Zealand government's Child Youth and Wellbeing Strategy's implementation, from September 2019 to June 2020.
Report
Ensuring adequate indexation of Working for Families
Working for Families (WFF) is the primary income support mechanism for children in New Zealand. In this paper, the authors make recommendations for the anticipated WFF government reform.
Report
Financial stress and social security settings in Australia
This research finds that inadequate social security payments play a significant role in shaping poverty and financial stress trends in Australia. It also finds that it is possible to address these challenges by increasing the overall social security budget.
Discussion paper
Poverty and a reduced coronavirus supplement
The Morrison Government’s decision to reduce the rate of JobSeeker by $150 from January 2021 will push an additional 190,000 Australians below the poverty line—including 50,000 children—and have a devastating impact on low income families, argues this paper.
Report
Does poverty in childhood beget poverty in adulthood in Australia?
This report provides new empirical evidence that the length of time children live in households experiencing income-based disadvantage is a predictor of other forms of disadvantage experienced by early adulthood.
Report
Universal child benefits: policy issues and options
Despite clear evidence of the effectiveness of well-designed social protection in tackling child poverty, children are one of the population groups at highest risk of exclusion from social protection. This report and briefing note, prepared in partnership with UNICEF, examines the role of universal child...
Working paper
How developmental neuroscience can help address the problem of child poverty
Child poverty represents a worldwide humanitarian, public health, and pragmatic problem. Poverty affects the lives of millions of children and needs more progress and new ideas based upon a variety of scientific evidence.
Report
Every child's right to survive: an agenda to end pneumonia deaths
This report presents the causes of pneumonia, the ways to prevent and treat it, and the resources needed to end pneumonia-related deaths. With only a decade left to achieve the Sustainable Development Goal 3 targets, the report is a stark reminder for stakeholders that resources...
Report
Poverty monitor 2019: technical report
This Child Poverty Monitor is the seventh consecutive annual report on implications of child poverty in New Zealand, and updates the progress made toward a society where every child can flourish and achieve their potential.
Conference paper
A childhood without poverty
This paper attempts to highlight the existence, extent and impact of child poverty and the right of children to wellbeing. It seeks to place child poverty within a broader context, other than an economic one.
Report
Families package monitoring report 2019
The Families Package was introduced in 2018 and provided targeted assistance to improve incomes for low- and middle-income families with children. This report monitors trends in receipt and expenditure for the different payments that comprise the package.
Briefing paper
Child poverty in Africa: an SDG emergency in the making
The profile of world poverty is changing dramatically. This briefing paper focuses on one of the most troubling but least explored aspects of that change - a marked increase in the share of global extreme poverty accounted for by children in Africa.
Report
Living in Australia: a snapshot of Australian society and how it is changing over time
This report summarises the findings from Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia (HILDA) Survey, which stands as a guide to inform our understanding of what’s shaping modern Australia.
Report
The impact of inequalities in the early years on outcomes over the life course
This report draws together research from international academics and policy-makers on the impact of childhood inequalities on life outcomes across a broad range of topics including education, crime and well-being.