Childhood Poverty: Multidisciplinary Approaches

✍ Scribed by Jo Boyden, Michael Bourdillon (eds.)

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan UK
• Year: 2012
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 330
• Series: Palgrave Studies on Children and Development
• Category: Library

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
Doing Longitudinal Research: Opportunities and Challenges in a Study of Childhood....Pages 15-23
The Ethics of Social Research with Children and Families in Young Lives: Practical Experiences....Pages 24-42
Uncovering the Consequences of Pre-School Malnutrition....Pages 43-51
Understanding Child Poverty in Developing Countries: Measurement and Analysis....Pages 52-69
Front Matter....Pages 71-73
‘Pro-Poor’ Growth and Children in Developing Countries: The Case of Vietnam....Pages 75-89
Evidence on Early Childhood Development Investment Returns....Pages 90-107
Do Economic Shocks Have a Long-Term Effect on the Height of 5-Year-Old Children? Evidence from Rural and Urban Ethiopia....Pages 108-123
Front Matter....Pages 125-128
Poverty and Developmental Potential....Pages 129-147
Poverty, Child Risk, and Resilience in Developing Countries....Pages 148-165
Political Economy, Perception, and Social Change as Mediators of Childhood Risk in Andhra Pradesh....Pages 166-184
On Being Despised: Growing up a Congolese Refugee in Dar es Salaam....Pages 185-199
‘Pen, Book, Soap, Good Food, and Encouragement’: Understandings of a Good Life for Children among Parents and Children in Three Ethiopian Communities....Pages 200-217
‘Ridiculed for Not Having Anything’: Children’s Views on Poverty and Inequality in Rural India....Pages 218-236
Front Matter....Pages 237-240
Pathways through Early Childhood Education in Ethiopia, India, and Peru: Rights, Equity, and Diversity....Pages 241-260
Explaining and Overcoming Marginalization in Education: Ethnic and Language Minorities in Peru....Pages 261-282
Child Agricultural Work in South Africa: A Contested Space....Pages 283-297
Are Work and Schooling Complementary or Competitive for Children in Rural Ethiopia? A Mixed-Methods Study....Pages 298-313
Back Matter....Pages 315-318

✦ Subjects

Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights; Poverty, Aid and Development; Children, Youth and Family Policy; Political Sociology; Development Studies; Social Structure, Social Inequality