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David Okech 6th February 2005	I am a PhD student in the U.S and planning to carry out a dissertation research on child poverty at an international level. Plese send me anything that can help in this project. Thanks
herm 24th February 2005	Show more than gust the same fricken 23 countries k.
Joep 8th June 2005	I think this way to measure child poverty, being purely relative to other people in the same country, is ridiculous. Children in the US are _not_ poorer than children in Spain.
Jen 5th July 2005	do u have child poverty numbers, but for ALL countries. thanks.
James Nickerson 4th October 2005	It is worth calling attention to the definition of child poverty used here, listed as "the share of the children living in the households with income below 50% of the national median." This statistic is only partially useful in determining what countries it is better, from a general material standpoint, to be a child in. Just because there are a lot of very, very rich people in a country doesn't mean that a family who is getting by in a lower middle class sense should necessarily be considered impoverished. I know we all have strides to make in combatting this issue, but I would argue that a good portion of those defined as technically poor in some countries are the envy of the destitute millions living in many other nations. I hope they will succeed in pulling themselves up, and that the rest of us will succeed in helping them do so. I also hope that we will not fail to recognize and be grateful for the marvelous situation nearly everyone in many priviledged, deterministic countries are in.
Bruce 15th February 2006	So by this definition, only the richest half of any country should be having children. It doesn't matter how wealthy that country is, anyone making less than the median income who gives birth is contributing to child poverty. That seems very elitist to me.
J. E (England) 8th September 2007	I would agree that the listings are pretty meaningless. Being "in a household with income below 50% of the national median" in a rich country is obviously going to be far different to a poor one...
William (Japan) 19th March 2008	I would agree that there is a problem with the way this is formulated. It seems to be more a measure of income gap than child poverty.

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