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Direct linkHernandez, Donald J.; Denton, Nancy A.; Macartney, Suzanne – Child Trends, 2009
This Research Brief, the second in Child Trends series on immigrant children, draws on new results from Census 2000 data to examine differences in the poverty rates between children in immigrant families and children in native-born families. The brief reports results for the official poverty measure, but also for two alternatives to the official…
Descriptors: Immigrants, Children, Poverty, Measurement Techniques
Download full textAbegaz, Berhanu, Ed. – Studies in Third World Societies, 1986
The four papers in this volume discuss various facets of the poverty-demography interaction: the rationale for the desired family size of the poor, the problems of attaining such size, the effect of family size/structure on household economy, and the future well-being of the children of the poor. "Mass Poverty, Demography, and Development…
Descriptors: Children, Demography, Developing Nations, Development
Dunbar, Anthony – 1969
Some 97 families (having 500 children) who live in the Louise-Midnight area of Mississippi were interviewed for this study conducted in 1968. The 45-minute interviews were taped, and excerpts from the tapes serve as starting points for disussions in the document on areas such as employment, food habits, health and health care, political climate,…
Descriptors: Agencies, Agricultural Laborers, Blacks, Community Responsibility
Williams, Sonja – 1987
This book of teaching activities is designed to address the issue of hunger and develop a sense of activism and hope among students. It encourages students to discover some of the causes and misconceptions about world hunger. The book contains eight lessons with numerous activities to allow students to study hunger and develop a broader…
Descriptors: Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Disadvantaged Environment, Economic Development
Reutlinger, Shlomo; And Others – 1986
Food security means access by all people at all times to enough food for an active and healthy life. Available data suggest that more than 700 million people in the developing world lack the food necessary for such a life. No problem of underdevelopment may be more serious or have such important implications for the long-term growth of low-income…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Economic Development, Economic Factors, Economically Disadvantaged
Knight, C. Gregory; Wilcox, R. Paul – 1976
Emphasizing a problem-solving perspective, the document investigates the world food scene. Simply defined, the world food problem is the apparent inability of the world's people to feed themselves adequately and consistently. Intended for use by college level geography instructors as they develop courses on human uses of the environment, the…
Descriptors: Depleted Resources, Developed Nations, Developing Nations, Eating Habits
