http://siteresources.worldbank.org/NEWS/Resources/childpoverty.pdf

Background note prepared by the World Bank Group for the Westminster Conference on Child Poverty. Poverty is a multidimensional phenomenon, encompassing inability to satisfy basic needs, lack of control over resources, lack of education and skills, poor health, malnutrition, lack of shelter, poor access to water and sanitation, vulnerability to shocks, violence and crime, lack of political freedom and voice.