Project CEMAPRE internal
| Title | A multidimensional approach to the dynamics of child poverty |
| Participants | Amélia Bastos (Principal Investigator) |
| Summary | Child poverty is still a major issue in the EU, despite the efforts that have been made to tackle it. In Portugal around one in every four child is poor which means living in a household with income below the poverty line and, therefore, with monetary constraints. This scenario points out for the scale of child poverty and suggests an obvious reason for social concern about the future of these children. The design of effective social policies to alleviate this problem is needed. However, to assure the efficiency of such policies the knowledge of child poverty features, in terms of the process that underline it, is required. The research developed in this project intends to contribute to this knowledge by shedding light in the dynamics of child poverty. Our aim is to disentangle the role of sociodemographic and economic factors in childrens movements into and out of poverty. We use a multidimensional concept of poverty in order to capture the various dimensions of the problem. |