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Common themes, methodological approach, and main findings / Giovanni Andrea Cornia and Sheldon Danziger -- Child poverty and deprivation in the industrialized countries from the end of World War II to the end of the Cold War era / Giovanni Andrea Cornia -- Growth, public expenditure, and household welfare in industrialized countries / Andrea Boltho -- Investing in children : government expenditure for children and their families in Western industrialized countries / Sheila B. Kamerman and Alfred J. Kahn -- Family policies in Eastern Europe : from socialism to the market / Gaspar Fajth and Tatiana Zimakova -- Child poverty and deprivation in Russia : improvement, standstill, and retrogression / Giovanni Andrea Cornia -- The American paradox : high income and high child poverty / Sheldon Danziger, Sandra Danziger, and Jonathan Stern -- Child welfare in the United Kingdom : rising poverty, falling priorities for children / Jonathan Bradshaw -- Child welfare in Portugal amidst fast growth and weak social policy / Manuela Silva -- Growth, regional imbalance, and child well-being : Italy over the last four decades / Chira Saraceno -- Advancing for children in the advanced welfare state : current problems and prospects in Sweden / Sven E. Olsson Hort -- Child well-being in Japan : the high cost of economic success / Martha N. Ozawa and Shigemi Kono -- Recession, social policy, and child welfare in post-communist Eastern Europe : which way ahead? / Giovanni Andrea Cornia -- Making social policy work for children : towards a more effective antipoverty policy / Timothy Smeeding, Sheldon Danziger, and Lee Rainwater. |
