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Income and Child Well-being:
A new perspective on the poverty debate
by David P. Ross and Paul Roberts CONTENTS
- List of Charts
- Acknowledgements
- Executive Summary
- Introduction
- PART I: Family Income and Children's Development
- Children's Environments
- Child Outcomes
- PART II: Linking Poverty to Child Outcomes
- Measuring poverty
- Poverty lines and children's development
- Recent trends in family income distribution
- Relating public policy development to family incomes
- Conclusion
- Technical Notes
- Appendix
- Endnotes
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Canadian Cataloguing in Publication Data
Ross, David P.
Income and child well-being: a new perspective on the poverty debateAlso issued in French under title: Le bien-être de l'enfant et le revenu familial.
ISBN 0-88810-468-51. Child development - Canada. 2. Income - Canada. 3. Family - Economic aspects - Canada. 4. Poverty - Canada. 5. Quality of life - Canada. I. Roberts, Paul, 1962- II. Canadian Council on Social Development. III. Title. HQ792.C3R67 1999 305.231'0971 C99-900544-8
Income and Child Well-being is published with the support of the Laidlaw Foundation. The CCSD also wishes to thank the Social Development Partnerships Program of Human Resources Development Canada for its ongoing support of the Council's research.
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