CHILD POVERTY AND INEQUALITY: THE WAY FORWARD

iterative ‘knowledge interaction’ approach to policy change whereby there is an explicit recognition of the power dynamics which ...

with policy makers or research-policy ‘intermediaries’); and policy contexts (including being able to identify specific ‘windows ...

Policy actors and networks: The relative marginalisation of child well-being issues on the development policy stage necessitates ...

Policy contexts: In light of our growing knowledge base about the impact pathways between macro-level political and economic dev ...

knowledge producers are considerably more plentiful in Latin America, than in Africa or Asia, and that capacity-strengthening ef ...

Just Give Money to the Poor – and Children Will Benefit Armando Barrientos^18 irect transfer to households in poverty: essential ...

schooling, and early entry into the labour market raise the likelihood of poverty, and contribute to ensuring poverty persist ac ...

Figure 2. Difference in height for age between Oportunidades treatment (joined 1998) and control (joined 2000) groups in 2003 fo ...

children’s time can be spent at school, at work, and in other activities (play for example). In practice, it is hard to measure ...

focused programmes require beneficiary households to ensure their members access primary health care and children are at school. ...

References Barrientos, A., and J. DeJong (2006). “Reducing child poverty with cash transfers: A sure thing?” Development Policy ...

Social Protection: Accelerating the MDGs with Equity Isabel Ortiz, Gaspar Fajth, Jennifer Yablonski and Amjad Rabi^19 he UN Secr ...

opportunities for using these programmes more widely in the global context of a recovery for all. Social Protection and the impo ...

evidence shows how progress has left behind large groups of disadvantaged children, women and families. Despite global reduction ...

In countries such as Senegal and Tanzania, the International Labour Organization (ILO) estimates that poverty could be reduced b ...

 The impact of vouchers which provided a wage subsidy to employers in Argentina increased the probability of employment for the ...

side barriers to education, reducing the need for families to rely on harmful coping strategies, and addressing barriers to gend ...

their likelihood to be engaged in higher-risk activities (Yap et al 2002). Social protection accelerates MDGs 4, 5 and 6: Improv ...

 In all cash transfer programmes for which there is data, with the exception of the PATH programme in Jamaica, incidence of ill ...

fives in Burundi (Médecins Sans Frontieres 2008). More recently, there is also evidence on the usefulness of broader social prot ...