Tracing the Consequences of Child Poverty: Evidence from the Young Lives study of Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam
Jo Boyden, Andrew Dawes, Paul Dornan, and Colin Tredoux
Abstract
What matters most in how poverty shapes children's wellbeing and development? How can data inform social policy and practice approaches to improving the outcomes for poorer children? Using life course analysis from the Young Lives study of 12,000 children growing up in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam over the past 15 years, this book draws on evidence from two cohorts of children, from 1 to 15 years old and from 8 to 22 years old. It examines how poverty affects children's development in low- and middle-income countries, and how policy has been used to improve their lives, then goes on to s ... More
What matters most in how poverty shapes children's wellbeing and development? How can data inform social policy and practice approaches to improving the outcomes for poorer children? Using life course analysis from the Young Lives study of 12,000 children growing up in Ethiopia, India, Peru, and Vietnam over the past 15 years, this book draws on evidence from two cohorts of children, from 1 to 15 years old and from 8 to 22 years old. It examines how poverty affects children's development in low- and middle-income countries, and how policy has been used to improve their lives, then goes on to show when key developmental differences occur. The book uses new evidence to develop a framework of what matters most and when, and outlines effective policy approaches to inform the no-one left behind Sustainable Development Goal agenda.
Keywords:
poverty,
wellbeing,
children,
child development,
social policy,
Sustainable Development Goal,
Ethiopia,
India,
Peru,
Vietnam
Bibliographic Information
Print publication date: 2019 |
Print ISBN-13: 9781447348313 |
Published to Policy Press Scholarship Online: September 2019 |
DOI:10.1332/policypress/9781447348313.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Jo Boyden, author
University of Oxford
Andrew Dawes, author
University of Cape Town
Paul Dornan, author
University of Oxford
Colin Tredoux, author
University of Cape Town
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