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The paper considers child poverty in rich English-speaking countries – the US, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, the UK, and Ireland. Do all these countries stand out from other OECD countries for their levels of child poverty, as is sometimes assumed? And what policies have they adopted to address the problem? ‘Poverty’ is interpreted broadly and hence the available cross-national evidence on ed...

Inferential statistics provides the mathematical means and procedures for deducing properties of a population, typically through analyses of a sample a subset of a population. Broadly speaking, statistical inference includes estimation, i.e., inference of unknown parameters that characterize one or more populations, and testing, i.e., evaluation of hypotheses about one or more populations. This...

The examples in (1) and (2) exemplify what I will call PSEUDOPARTITIVES in Estonian. (1) hargi-täisN1 pitchfork-ful põhkuN2 straw.PAR ‘a/the pitchforkful of straw’ (EKSS, entry for hargitäis) (2) parvN1 flock pääsukesiN2 swallow.PL.PAR ‘a/the flock of swallows’ (Nemvalts, 1996:69) Key aspects of the pseudopartitive construction: • One noun (N1) serves a quantifying or measuring role (broadly sp...

management of their competencies. Broadly speaking, competency management is the way in which organizations coordinate and manage the competencies of the corporation, groups, and individuals. It has the primary objective to identify and continuously maintain competencies, according to the objectives of the corporation. A competency is a way to put into the practice some knowledge, know-how, and...