Tracing the Consequences of Child Poverty: Evidence from the Young Lives Study in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam - Couverture souple

Boyden, Jo; Dawes, Andrew; Dornan, Paul; Tredoux, Colin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1447348311 ISBN 13 : 9781447348313

Editeur : Policy Press, 2019

Synopsis

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book draws on evidence on two cohorts of children, from 1 to 15 and from 8 to 22 growing up in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam over the past 15 years. It examines how poverty affects children’s development in these countries, and how policy has been used to improve their lives.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Professor Jo Boyden is Professor of International Development/ Director of Young Lives, Oxford Department of International Development. She is an authority on child development and children's rights and has worked on research and policy with children, particularly child labour, education, children in conflict, as well as publishing on childhood resilience in the context of adversity, poverty, and socio-cultural development. Andrew Dawes is Associate Professor Emeritus in Psychology at the University of Cape Town and a Research Associate with Young Lives. His expertise includes the development indicators for measuring children's rights and well-being, prevention of child maltreatment and violence to young children, and evaluations of early childhood development programmes in African settings. He has extensive experience in translating research to policy. Dr Paul Dornan is Senior Policy Officer at Young Lives in the Oxford Department of International Development. He is a social policy analyst with expertise in social policy and child poverty and is responsible for leading policy activity within Young Lives. Professor Colin Tredoux is Professor of Psychology, University of Cape Town, and Chaire d'Attractivite, at the Universite de Toulouse, Mirail, France. His interests in Social Psychology include contact theory, and the micro-ecology of contact and segregation. He has published widely in a range of journals, including American Psychologist, South African Journal of Psychology, and Psychological Science.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Policy Press
• Date d'édition: 2019
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1447348311
• ISBN 13: 9781447348313
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 204
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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