Child poverty is a central and present part of global life, withhundreds of millions of children around the world enduring tremendoussuffering and deprivation of their most basic needs. Despite its longhistory, research on poverty and development has only relativelyrecently examined the issue of child poverty as a distinct topic ofconcern. This book brings together theoretical, methodological andpolicy-relevant contributions by leading researchers on internationalchild poverty. With a preface from Sir Richard Jolly, Former AssistantSecretary General of the United Nations, it examines how child povertyand well-being are now conceptualized, defined and measured, andpresents regional and national level portraits of child poverty aroundthe world, in rich, middle income and poor countries. The book'sultimate objective is to promote and influence policy, action and theresearch agenda to address one of the world's great ongoing tragedies:child poverty, marginalization and inequality.