Child Poverty in Egypt’s Poorest Villages: A Multilevel Logistic Model | ||
| المجلة المصرية للسکان وتنظيم الأسرة | ||
| Article 1, Volume 48, Issue 1, June 2015, Pages 1-16 PDF (1.05 M) | ||
| Document Type: المقالة الأصلية | ||
| DOI: 10.21608/mskas.2015.360983 | ||
| Authors | ||
| May Gadallah* ; Enas Ali A.El-Majeed; Nouran Chakra | ||
| Faculty of Economics and Political Science -Cairo University | ||
| Abstract | ||
| Poverty in Egypt is widespread all over the country and has been increasing during the last decade from around 16.7% in 2000 to reach 26.3% in 2013. The single largest population group in Egypt is the children (17 years and below). They represent 37% of the population overall Egypt, whereas they represent 48.3% in the poorest 1000 villages survey. The importance of focusing on childhood rises from that early stage formulates children's development. Unlike adults, children are vulnerable to any deprivation in this stage as its impact might be long lasting and could have an intergenerational effect. The purpose of the study is to compare the results that illustrate multidimensional child poverty in the poorest villages with the results of the national level to know if children in these regions are deprived of the same rights the children at the national level are deprived of or not. Comparison will also be made with the rural regions in Upper and Lower Egypt. This is important to design specific programmes to children living in these villages in case of significant differences. In order to accomplish this objective, the paper is organized as follows. Section I reviews the literature. Section 2. explains the methodology implemented and describes the data used in the study. Section 3 covers the descriptive part of child poverty in the studied sample compared with the national level. The main results of multilevel analysis are presented in Section 4 followed by a discussion that concludes and suggests avenues for further experiments. | ||
| Keywords | ||
| Child poverty; Multilevel logistic; Poorest villages; Egypt | ||
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