Breaking the Cycle: Children and Persistent Poverty

This event was hosted by the Swedish Ministry of Foreign Affairs, in Stockholm on 4 December 2008 and was by invitation only for senior Scandinavian policymakers, practitioners and scholars working with an interest in poverty, childhood poverty and related policy issues.

With Round 2 of the Young Lives data collection now complete, we are for the first time in a position to begin to share our initial findings and comparative analysis as well as our methods. We believed this to be of interest to Scandinavian stakeholders who often lead in policy and practice on tackling poverty.  The event was designed to stimulate and facilitate high-level exchange of new questions and ideas to progress policy debates on childhood poverty.

The following presentations were given by Young Lives team members:

Growth, inequality and childhood poverty: the picture so far
Dr Jo Boyden, Director, Young Lives, University of Oxford

Using longitudinal research to understand the dynamics of childhood poverty
Dr Rozana Himaz, Young Lives Quantitative Research Officer, University of Oxford

Early childhood and basic education in Young Lives countries: issues of access, equity and quality
Professor Martin Woodhead, Young Lives International Child Research Director, The Open University

Education, work and gender: lessons from Young Lives in India
Professor Uma Vennam, Lead Qualitative Researcher, Young Lives India

Child poverty research and influencing poverty
Caroline Knowles, Young Lives Communications Manager, University of Oxford


The final programme is available to download here [pdf file 117 KB].

Please contact Caroline Knowles, Young Lives Communications Manager for more information, or copies of any of the presentations. Email: caroline.knowles@qeh.ox.ac.uk