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Situating Children in International Development Policy

This article presents a framework for analysing the impacts of evidence-informed policy entrepreneurship, and applies it to a longitudinal policy research project on childhood poverty in the developing world. Drawing on insights from Keck and Sikkink's (1998) work on transnational advocacy, the discussion highlights five key dimensions of possible policy impact: framing debates and policy agenda formulation; securing discursive commitments from key policy actors; bringing about procedural changes; policy reform; and behavioural change.

Situating Children in International Development Policy

This article presents a framework for analysing the impacts of evidence-informed policy entrepreneurship, and applies it to a longitudinal policy research project on childhood poverty in the developing world. Drawing on insights from Keck and Sikkink's (1998) work on transnational advocacy, the discussion highlights five key dimensions of possible policy impact: framing debates and policy agenda formulation; securing discursive commitments from key policy actors; bringing about procedural changes; policy reform; and behavioural change.

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Trade Liberalisation and Children: Understanding and Coping with Children’s Vulnerabilities

The arguments in favor of trade liberalization are well known: it promotes the efficient allocation of resources through comparative advantage, allows the dissemination of knowledge and technological progress, and encourages competition. Trade liberalization is likely to have a major impact on the lives of poor children and their families. Although this effect may be positive in the long run, the development literature recognizes that it may have a negative short-run impact in sectors that are unable to adjust rapidly enough to the new policy context.

Trade Liberalisation and Children: Understanding and Coping with Children’s Vulnerabilities

The arguments in favor of trade liberalization are well known: it promotes the efficient allocation of resources through comparative advantage, allows the dissemination of knowledge and technological progress, and encourages competition. Trade liberalization is likely to have a major impact on the lives of poor children and their families. Although this effect may be positive in the long run, the development literature recognizes that it may have a negative short-run impact in sectors that are unable to adjust rapidly enough to the new policy context.

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Trade Liberalisation and Child Welfare

Abstract: Peru is in the process of negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) with the USA which would eliminate trade concessions on most goods and services. This paper analyses the potential impacts of such extensive trade liberalisation for Peru. The focus is on possible short-term welfare impacts and especially on child-related welfare outcomes. The effects of a full and abrupt elimination of tariffs as part of a FTA are estimated in a general equilibrium framework ? a branch of theoretical micro-economics which seeks to explain production, consumption and prices in a whole economy.

Trade Liberalisation and Child Welfare

Abstract: Peru is in the process of negotiating a free trade agreement (FTA) with the USA which would eliminate trade concessions on most goods and services. This paper analyses the potential impacts of such extensive trade liberalisation for Peru. The focus is on possible short-term welfare impacts and especially on child-related welfare outcomes. The effects of a full and abrupt elimination of tariffs as part of a FTA are estimated in a general equilibrium framework ? a branch of theoretical micro-economics which seeks to explain production, consumption and prices in a whole economy.

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The Quality of Parental Participation and Student Achievement in Peruvian Government Schools

Abstract: This paper presents and discusses the findings of a study on families' and teachers' understanding of parental involvement in children's schooling in public primary schools in Peru. The study was undertaken against a background of encouragement of parental participation in education as a means to democratise and improve the quality of educational services. In Peru, as elsewhere, parental involvement in schooling is increasingly seen as contributing to learning and achievement.

The Quality of Parental Participation and Student Achievement in Peruvian Government Schools

Abstract: This paper presents and discusses the findings of a study on families' and teachers' understanding of parental involvement in children's schooling in public primary schools in Peru. The study was undertaken against a background of encouragement of parental participation in education as a means to democratise and improve the quality of educational services. In Peru, as elsewhere, parental involvement in schooling is increasingly seen as contributing to learning and achievement.

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Education for All in Vietnam: High Enrolment, but Problems of Quality Remain

Vietnam recognises the need to improve both access to education and quality. It has adopted the Dakar Education for All (EFA) Framework for Action – an initiative with greater focus on quality than those set out in the Millennium Development Goals. Vietnam’s National EFA Action Plan sets out a pathway to advance key components of the education system by 2015: early childhood care and pre-school, primary, lower-secondary and non-formal education.

Education for All in Vietnam: High Enrolment, but Problems of Quality Remain

Vietnam recognises the need to improve both access to education and quality. It has adopted the Dakar Education for All (EFA) Framework for Action – an initiative with greater focus on quality than those set out in the Millennium Development Goals. Vietnam’s National EFA Action Plan sets out a pathway to advance key components of the education system by 2015: early childhood care and pre-school, primary, lower-secondary and non-formal education.

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Trade Liberalisation and Child Wellbeing: Potential Impacts of the Peru-US Free Trade Agreement

Following the lead of Latin American countries such as Mexico and Chile, Peru signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States in December 2005. While most economic analysis points towards overall benefits for Peru, there are concerns regarding potential adverse consequences. In order to derive maximum benefits with minimum losses, it is vital to identify appropriate mechanisms to support short-term losers – especially children from poor families – and to develop medium-term strategies to promote a more equitable distribution of benefits.

Trade Liberalisation and Child Wellbeing: Potential Impacts of the Peru-US Free Trade Agreement

Following the lead of Latin American countries such as Mexico and Chile, Peru signed a Free Trade Agreement (FTA) with the United States in December 2005. While most economic analysis points towards overall benefits for Peru, there are concerns regarding potential adverse consequences. In order to derive maximum benefits with minimum losses, it is vital to identify appropriate mechanisms to support short-term losers – especially children from poor families – and to develop medium-term strategies to promote a more equitable distribution of benefits.

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Mother's Social Networks and Child Nutrition in Andhra Pradesh

Objective: It is hypothesised that mothers' social networks can positively affect child nutrition through the sharing of health knowledge and other resources. The present study describes the composition of mothers? networks, examines their association with child nutrition, and assesses whether health knowledge is shared within networks.

Design and setting: Cross-sectional data for mothers of young children from Andhra Pradesh (south India) were combined with existing data from the Young Lives study, in which the mothers were participating (n ¼ 282).

Mother's Social Networks and Child Nutrition in Andhra Pradesh

Objective: It is hypothesised that mothers' social networks can positively affect child nutrition through the sharing of health knowledge and other resources. The present study describes the composition of mothers? networks, examines their association with child nutrition, and assesses whether health knowledge is shared within networks.

Design and setting: Cross-sectional data for mothers of young children from Andhra Pradesh (south India) were combined with existing data from the Young Lives study, in which the mothers were participating (n ¼ 282).

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Decentralization and Participatory Service Delivery

User participation has been promoted to improve the quality, responsiveness, and outreach of public services in India. This qualitative study evaluates new grassroots institutions' Village Education Committees and Mothers' Committees' in Andhra Pradesh, which promoting parents' participation in the management and monitoring of local schools and maternal/child health services.

Decentralization and Participatory Service Delivery

User participation has been promoted to improve the quality, responsiveness, and outreach of public services in India. This qualitative study evaluates new grassroots institutions' Village Education Committees and Mothers' Committees' in Andhra Pradesh, which promoting parents' participation in the management and monitoring of local schools and maternal/child health services.

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Maternal Social Capital and Child Nutritional Status in Four Developing Countries

Social capital has been shown to be positively associated with a range of health outcomes, yet no studies have explored the association between maternal social capital and child nutritional status. Using data from the Young Lives study comprising 7242 1-year-old children from Peru, Ethiopia, Vietnam and the state of Andhra Pradesh in India, we find significant differences in the levels of, in particular, structural social capital (group membership and citizenship) between countries.

Maternal Social Capital and Child Nutritional Status in Four Developing Countries

Social capital has been shown to be positively associated with a range of health outcomes, yet no studies have explored the association between maternal social capital and child nutritional status. Using data from the Young Lives study comprising 7242 1-year-old children from Peru, Ethiopia, Vietnam and the state of Andhra Pradesh in India, we find significant differences in the levels of, in particular, structural social capital (group membership and citizenship) between countries.

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Questioning the Power of Resilience: Are Children up to the Task of Disrupting the Transmission of Poverty?

Resilience is an increasingly popular term employed in child development and international development discourse. Applied to childhood poverty, poverty over the life course and the intergenerational transmission of poverty, the resilience of boys and girls may be considered as serving as a conceptual and analytical tool for examining the ways in which young humans are able to overcome the negative outcomes of poverty and prevent its transfer within families, households and communities.

Questioning the Power of Resilience: Are Children up to the Task of Disrupting the Transmission of Poverty?

Resilience is an increasingly popular term employed in child development and international development discourse. Applied to childhood poverty, poverty over the life course and the intergenerational transmission of poverty, the resilience of boys and girls may be considered as serving as a conceptual and analytical tool for examining the ways in which young humans are able to overcome the negative outcomes of poverty and prevent its transfer within families, households and communities.

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