Child Poverty, Evidence and Policy: Mainstreaming Children in International Development

ISBN-13: 9781847424464 / Angielski / Twarda / 2011 / 264 str.

Opis

Recent studies suggest that current policy approaches to tackling childhood poverty have had limited efficacy. In the developing world, the problem is more challenging still, as highlighted by the large number of countries that are off track in meeting the child-related Millennium Development Goals. This timely book highlights the importance of integrating children's voices into the debate, bringing together a theoretical discussion of childhoods, children's experiences of poverty and development discourses, as well as empirical case studies from the developing world. Weaving together theory and mixed method approaches, the book provides an introduction to students and development professionals who are new to debates on children and development, offering scholars in the field new methodological and empirical insights.

Spis treści

Contents: Introduction; Part one: Challenging orthodoxy: Children, knowledge and policy: Conceptualising childhood poverty and well-being; Knowledge generation and children; Integrating children's voices in policy making; Part two: Case studies in children's voice, vision and visability: Children, knowledge and policy in donor agencies; Children, knowledge and policy in Africa; Children, knowledge and policy in South Asia; Children, knowledge and policy in East Asia; Children, knowledge and policy in South America; Conclusions: rethinking children, knowledge, policy and power.