World Child Well-Being Index: A Multidimensional Perspective

Abstract

This work aims to understand the situation of children within a particular territory and assess the different dimensions of this scenario. To this end we develop a multidimensional indicator to synthesize the most relevant dimensions and indicators around the world at a country level. Our results not only identify the aspects exerting the greatest impact on infant well-being, but also provide a full international comparison. The ranking obtained allows us to compare among countries, thus highlighting differences in the transformation of wealth into infant well-being. Moreover, incorporating gender into the analysis provides a new and relevant perspective.

A Review of Child-Friendly City Assessment Tools – Are We Really Planning Cities for Children?

“…administrative authorities, experts, users) have different value objectives due to differences in their positions (Meng & Li, 2022). In addition, child-friendly standards are not the same in developing and developed countries, taking into account the unevenness of economic development (Manouchehri et al, 2021;Prada & Sanchez-Fernandez, 2021). There is therefore no harmonised standard or toolkit that can be applied globally.…”