Enrique Delamonica
Biographic Data
| ID | 273269 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Enrique Delamonica |
| GIVEN NAMES | Enrique |
| FAMILY NAME | Delamonica |
| SIGNATURE | DELAMONICA E |
| AFFILIATIONS | United Nations Children's Fund |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2679-1421 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 78 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1998 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Children in Monetary Poor Households
This paper presents the first estimates of extreme child poverty and child poverty using the World Bank’s recently revised international poverty lines. Using the international poverty line of $3.00 per day and the higher $8.30 per day poverty line (both expressed in 2021 purchasing power parity), the paper provides new results of the global and regional trends over 2014–24. The estimates show that 19.2 percent of children, approximately 412 milli…
Measuring human rights? Vernacularisation and paradoxes of measurement in child poverty estimation
During the last two decades, UNICEF has led efforts to measure Child Poverty globally as well as in various regions and countries. These efforts have been explicitly grounded on a human rights perspective and guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child.In this paper, some of the issues raised by these endeavours are analysed. The paper explicitly uses, and expands, Sally Engle Merry's framework of vernacularisation to assess these efforts…
Growth is Good for the Poor? Not Necessarily
In mainstream economic thinking, it is common to find a simplistic relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction. Two decades ago, a paper titled “Growth is Good for the Poor” purported to have established a strict one-to-one relationship between economic growth at the national level and growth of income among the poor. In this note we explain the methodological, modelling, and analytical shortcomings of the exercise. Using simulatio…
Perception of Child Poverty in Southern Nigeria
Most of the existing surveys and poverty studies in Nigeria are, understandably, quantitative in approach, generating data and statistics that are currently guiding development planning. Issues that address perceptions, social interactions and/or sensory experiences are less amenable for exploration using quantitative data. They can be fruitfully analyzed with qualitative information. Yet, understanding how poverty impacts the lives of children, …
Essential elements of an integrated social protection system that works for children
Multidimensional Child Poverty
Child Poverty, Youth (Un)Employment, and Social Inclusion
Worldwide child and youth poverty remain the biggest barrier to achieving a better life in adulthood. Progress in lifting children out of poverty in the last decades has been slow and limited in the developing world, while the recent global economic crisis has exacerbated child poverty, youth unemployment, and social exclusion in many developed countries. This book critically examines the long-term consequences of growing up poor, the close linka…
Global Child Poverty and Well-Being
This book brings together theoretical, methodological and policy-relevant contributions by leading researchers on international child poverty.
Taking the MDGs Beyond 2015
The authors advise to hasten slowly in defining the successor framework to the MDGs. The review of progress in 2010 should not be intermingled with the intergovernmental discussions about the post?2015 framework. The latter should not start until a UN panel of Eminent Persons has prepared a set of thoughtful options and suggestions. The worst decision would be to keep the same MDGs and add new Goals and more Targets. The panel will have to addres…
Incidence, Depth and Severity of Children in Poverty
The definition of child poverty
This paper presents and discusses different concepts of child poverty, alternative definitions of children living in poverty, and measurement efforts in this regard. It addresses such questions as: who are the children living in poverty? Is the issue of children living in poverty recognized by and incorporated into anti-poverty strategies? Have governments, civil society organizations and international organizations identified and adopted policie…
The Private Sector and Privatization in Social Services
One of the most significant developments in the 1990s in social policy in developing and transition countries has been the growth of privatization in health, education and water services - three basic services, which involve most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Welfare pluralism was very much a core element of the Washington Consensus. Despite the talk of the Washington Consensus being 'dead for years', the international financial ins…
Education for All
In 1990, a target of universal access to basic education by the year 2000 was set by two global conferences. Ten years later, however, it was clear that the target had not been met. Too many countries had made insufficient progress, and although many of the reasons for this inadequate progress were country-specific, one factor stood out in virtually all countries: inadequate public finance for primary education. In 2000, the Millennium Summit set…
Socio-economic inequalities in mortality and health in the developing world
Trends in child mortality disparities show that within country inequities have remained constant in some countries and worsened in most of the other ones. Only three countries, with relatively small populations which comprise less than 2 per cent of ou
Mind the Gap! Widening Child Mortality Disparities
In parallel to the substantial expansion in global economic transactions and growth during the 1990s, there is evidence that the number of poor has increased and that income disparity among and within countries grew as well. There is, however, considerably less evidence about the situation of children related to these matters. Within this context, this paper explores the evolution of social disparities by analysing the trends in the Under-5 Morta…
Economic growth, poverty and children
This paper discusses the different dimensions of poverty, with a particular focus on non-monetary aspects, and describes the limitations and inaccuracies inherent in the US$ 1 a day poverty line now widely used in cross-country comparisons. It highlights how little attention is given to the aspects of poverty that most affect children and explains why addressing these issues is an effective approach to poverty reduction. The authors discuss why e…
Economic growth, poverty and children
This paper discusses the different dimensions of poverty, with a particular focus on non-monetary aspects, and describes the limitations and inaccuracies inherent in the US$ 1 a day poverty line now widely used in cross-country comparisons. It highlights how little attention is given to the aspects of poverty that most affect children and explains why addressing these issues is an effective approach to poverty reduction. The authors discuss why e…
Household costs and public expenditure on primary education in five low income countries
The definition of child poverty
This paper presents and discusses different concepts of child poverty, alternative definitions of children living in poverty, and measurement efforts in this regard. It addresses such questions as: who are the children living in poverty? Is the issue of children living in poverty recognized by and incorporated into anti-poverty strategies? Have governments, civil society organizations and international organizations identified and adopted policie…
Incidence, Depth and Severity of Children in Poverty
Multidimensional Child Poverty
The Private Sector and Privatization in Social Services
One of the most significant developments in the 1990s in social policy in developing and transition countries has been the growth of privatization in health, education and water services - three basic services, which involve most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Welfare pluralism was very much a core element of the Washington Consensus. Despite the talk of the Washington Consensus being 'dead for years', the international financial ins…
Taking the MDGs Beyond 2015
The authors advise to hasten slowly in defining the successor framework to the MDGs. The review of progress in 2010 should not be intermingled with the intergovernmental discussions about the post?2015 framework. The latter should not start until a UN panel of Eminent Persons has prepared a set of thoughtful options and suggestions. The worst decision would be to keep the same MDGs and add new Goals and more Targets. The panel will have to addres…
Household costs and public expenditure on primary education in five low income countries
Socio-economic inequalities in mortality and health in the developing world
Trends in child mortality disparities show that within country inequities have remained constant in some countries and worsened in most of the other ones. Only three countries, with relatively small populations which comprise less than 2 per cent of ou
Growth is Good for the Poor? Not Necessarily
In mainstream economic thinking, it is common to find a simplistic relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction. Two decades ago, a paper titled “Growth is Good for the Poor” purported to have established a strict one-to-one relationship between economic growth at the national level and growth of income among the poor. In this note we explain the methodological, modelling, and analytical shortcomings of the exercise. Using simulatio…
Perception of Child Poverty in Southern Nigeria
Most of the existing surveys and poverty studies in Nigeria are, understandably, quantitative in approach, generating data and statistics that are currently guiding development planning. Issues that address perceptions, social interactions and/or sensory experiences are less amenable for exploration using quantitative data. They can be fruitfully analyzed with qualitative information. Yet, understanding how poverty impacts the lives of children, …
Economic growth, poverty and children
This paper discusses the different dimensions of poverty, with a particular focus on non-monetary aspects, and describes the limitations and inaccuracies inherent in the US$ 1 a day poverty line now widely used in cross-country comparisons. It highlights how little attention is given to the aspects of poverty that most affect children and explains why addressing these issues is an effective approach to poverty reduction. The authors discuss why e…
Household costs and public expenditure on primary education in five low income countries
Economic growth, poverty and children
This paper discusses the different dimensions of poverty, with a particular focus on non-monetary aspects, and describes the limitations and inaccuracies inherent in the US$ 1 a day poverty line now widely used in cross-country comparisons. It highlights how little attention is given to the aspects of poverty that most affect children and explains why addressing these issues is an effective approach to poverty reduction. The authors discuss why e…
Economic growth, poverty and children
This paper discusses the different dimensions of poverty, with a particular focus on non-monetary aspects, and describes the limitations and inaccuracies inherent in the US$ 1 a day poverty line now widely used in cross-country comparisons. It highlights how little attention is given to the aspects of poverty that most affect children and explains why addressing these issues is an effective approach to poverty reduction. The authors discuss why e…
Mind the Gap! Widening Child Mortality Disparities
In parallel to the substantial expansion in global economic transactions and growth during the 1990s, there is evidence that the number of poor has increased and that income disparity among and within countries grew as well. There is, however, considerably less evidence about the situation of children related to these matters. Within this context, this paper explores the evolution of social disparities by analysing the trends in the Under-5 Morta…
Education for All
In 1990, a target of universal access to basic education by the year 2000 was set by two global conferences. Ten years later, however, it was clear that the target had not been met. Too many countries had made insufficient progress, and although many of the reasons for this inadequate progress were country-specific, one factor stood out in virtually all countries: inadequate public finance for primary education. In 2000, the Millennium Summit set…
Socio-economic inequalities in mortality and health in the developing world
Trends in child mortality disparities show that within country inequities have remained constant in some countries and worsened in most of the other ones. Only three countries, with relatively small populations which comprise less than 2 per cent of ou
The Private Sector and Privatization in Social Services
One of the most significant developments in the 1990s in social policy in developing and transition countries has been the growth of privatization in health, education and water services - three basic services, which involve most of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). Welfare pluralism was very much a core element of the Washington Consensus. Despite the talk of the Washington Consensus being 'dead for years', the international financial ins…
The definition of child poverty
This paper presents and discusses different concepts of child poverty, alternative definitions of children living in poverty, and measurement efforts in this regard. It addresses such questions as: who are the children living in poverty? Is the issue of children living in poverty recognized by and incorporated into anti-poverty strategies? Have governments, civil society organizations and international organizations identified and adopted policie…
Incidence, Depth and Severity of Children in Poverty
Taking the MDGs Beyond 2015
The authors advise to hasten slowly in defining the successor framework to the MDGs. The review of progress in 2010 should not be intermingled with the intergovernmental discussions about the post?2015 framework. The latter should not start until a UN panel of Eminent Persons has prepared a set of thoughtful options and suggestions. The worst decision would be to keep the same MDGs and add new Goals and more Targets. The panel will have to addres…
Global Child Poverty and Well-Being
This book brings together theoretical, methodological and policy-relevant contributions by leading researchers on international child poverty.
Child Poverty, Youth (Un)Employment, and Social Inclusion
Worldwide child and youth poverty remain the biggest barrier to achieving a better life in adulthood. Progress in lifting children out of poverty in the last decades has been slow and limited in the developing world, while the recent global economic crisis has exacerbated child poverty, youth unemployment, and social exclusion in many developed countries. This book critically examines the long-term consequences of growing up poor, the close linka…
Multidimensional Child Poverty
Essential elements of an integrated social protection system that works for children
Perception of Child Poverty in Southern Nigeria
Most of the existing surveys and poverty studies in Nigeria are, understandably, quantitative in approach, generating data and statistics that are currently guiding development planning. Issues that address perceptions, social interactions and/or sensory experiences are less amenable for exploration using quantitative data. They can be fruitfully analyzed with qualitative information. Yet, understanding how poverty impacts the lives of children, …
Measuring human rights? Vernacularisation and paradoxes of measurement in child poverty estimation
During the last two decades, UNICEF has led efforts to measure Child Poverty globally as well as in various regions and countries. These efforts have been explicitly grounded on a human rights perspective and guided by the Convention on the Rights of the Child.In this paper, some of the issues raised by these endeavours are analysed. The paper explicitly uses, and expands, Sally Engle Merry's framework of vernacularisation to assess these efforts…
Growth is Good for the Poor? Not Necessarily
In mainstream economic thinking, it is common to find a simplistic relationship between economic growth and poverty reduction. Two decades ago, a paper titled “Growth is Good for the Poor” purported to have established a strict one-to-one relationship between economic growth at the national level and growth of income among the poor. In this note we explain the methodological, modelling, and analytical shortcomings of the exercise. Using simulatio…
Children in Monetary Poor Households
This paper presents the first estimates of extreme child poverty and child poverty using the World Bank’s recently revised international poverty lines. Using the international poverty line of $3.00 per day and the higher $8.30 per day poverty line (both expressed in 2021 purchasing power parity), the paper provides new results of the global and regional trends over 2014–24. The estimates show that 19.2 percent of children, approximately 412 milli…
Economic growth (16 works) · Economics (16 works) · Poverty (12 works) · Political science (11 works) · Development economics (10 works) · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare (10 works) · Income, Poverty, and Inequality (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Child poverty (7 works) · Developing country (7 works)