Young Lives is an international study of childhood poverty, involving 12,000 children in 4 countries over 15 years. It is led by a team in the Department of International Development at the University of Oxford in association with research and policy partners in the 4 study countries: Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam.
Through researching different aspects of children's lives, we seek to improve policies and programmes for children.
We need to end child poverty in order to break the cycle of poverty.
Child work is common. Exploitative or dangerous work causes harm but some work can be a positive way in which children develop skills and take part in their community. Find out more at Our policy work.
How children view their lives is very important to us. Read some award-winning stories from young journalists in Vietnam here.
Our theme pages give you easy-to-access resources on a broad range of topics in development debates today.
