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Young Lives Global Challenges Symposium, 12-13 December 2008
The Young Lives Global Challenges symposium is an invitation-only event, held at the University of Oxford, 12 -13 December 2008 and represents a unique opportunity to engage in high-level debate and exchange of ideas among experts across disciplines in the area of poverty research and childhood studies.
| What | Symposium |
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| When |
2008-12-12 09:00
to 2008-12-13 17:00 |
| Where | Oxford University |
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Key areas of Young Lives research include the multidimensional nature of poverty and how the different facets of poverty affect children’s outcomes and life trajectories. Having completed 2 rounds of data collection in 2002 and 2006, the third round will take place in 2009. Discussions at the symposium aim to situate Young Lives within the wider academic discourse and ensure that our research engages with the latest critical thinking as we enter this exciting new phase of our work.
Discussion themes and participants include:
12 December 2008: Dimensions and Dynamics of Childhood Poverty
1) What’s different about childhood poverty?
Stefan Dercon (Young Lives/Oxford): Measuring Multiple Dimensions of Childhood Poverty
Francisco H.G. Ferreira (World Bank): Economic Crises May Hurt – or Help! Investments in Children
Jere Behrman (Economics and Population Studies, Pennsylvania): Impact Evaluation and Evidence on Young Life Investment Returns
Paul Glewwe (Economics, Minnesota): Pro-poor Growth and Children
2) Risk, protection and well-being in children
Marcel Fafchamps (Oxford): Risk-sharing and Child Well-being
Theodore Wachs (Purdue University): Environmental Factors, Individual Characteristics and Children's Risk and Resilience
3) Children’s health and physical development
Patrice Engle (Cal Poly): Poverty and Developmental Potential: Contributions from Longitudinal Data
Nigel Rollins (University of KwaZulu Natal): HIV, Child Survival and Money: Making the Connections
John Hoddinott (IFPRI): Uncovering the Causal Consequences of Pre-school Malnutrition
13 December 2008: Breaking the Cycle of Poverty
4) The impact of life-choices on children’s trajectories
Martin Woodhead (Open University): Pathways through Early Childhood: Respecting Rights, Equity and Diversity
Albert Park (Gansu Survey of Children and Families, Oxford): Parental Migration and Child Development in Poor Regions: Evidence from China
Andy Dawes (University of Cape Town): Child Agricultural work in South Africa: A Study of Contested Developmental Space
5) Children’s life and social skills
Jo Boyden (Young Lives/Oxford): Children’s Social Cognition and Development in the Context of Adversity in Ethiopia
Gillian Mann (Anthropology Dept, LSE): On Being Despised: Growing up a Congolese Refugee in Dar es Salaam
6) The political economy of childhood poverty
Sarah White (Bath): Beyond a Child's Eye View: The Political Economy of Children and Young People in International Development
Cindi Katz (CUNY): Work, Play, Learning: Some Consequences of Economic Restructuring for Children’s Everyday Lives
7) Side meeting on producing a child-focused module for national household surveys
Provisionally with participants from the Birth-to-Twenty project, Gansu Survey of Children and Families, CREATE, CEEBU, Young Lives and the World Bank.
The full programme, for information, is available to download here [PDF file 119 KB] also the participants list [PDF file 104 KB]
For further information, please contact: Caroline Knowles, Communications Manager, Young Lives (caroline.knowles@qeh.ox.ac.uk)