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‘Ridiculed For Not Having Anything’: Children's Views on Poverty and Inequality in Rural India

This chapter reports on research carried out with boys and girls, aged 12 to 15, participating in Young Lives in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It focuses on young people?s descriptions, explanations, and experiences of poverty and inequality in two contrasting rural communities and highlights implications for research, policy and practice, and rights. Young people growing up in poor communities are generally alert to inequalities and injustices, and to their own disadvantaged situations.

‘Ridiculed For Not Having Anything’: Children's Views on Poverty and Inequality in Rural India

This chapter reports on research carried out with boys and girls, aged 12 to 15, participating in Young Lives in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh. It focuses on young people?s descriptions, explanations, and experiences of poverty and inequality in two contrasting rural communities and highlights implications for research, policy and practice, and rights. Young people growing up in poor communities are generally alert to inequalities and injustices, and to their own disadvantaged situations.

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Children’s Perceptions of Punishment in Schools in Andhra Pradesh, India

One of the success stories of the MDGs has been the increase in enrolment of children in primary schools. However, little attention has been paid to the daily experiences of children in school, from their viewpoints, and the extent to which corporal punishment is used to control boys and girls in overcrowded classes with lack of teaching material, and teachers with limited classroom management skills. Even less attention has been paid to parents’ views about their children’s experiences at school.

Children’s Perceptions of Punishment in Schools in Andhra Pradesh, India

One of the success stories of the MDGs has been the increase in enrolment of children in primary schools. However, little attention has been paid to the daily experiences of children in school, from their viewpoints, and the extent to which corporal punishment is used to control boys and girls in overcrowded classes with lack of teaching material, and teachers with limited classroom management skills. Even less attention has been paid to parents’ views about their children’s experiences at school.

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Gender Violence in the Home and Childhoods in Vietnam

The majority of research on children and violence in the home has originated in the Global North, within a psychological framework which highlights the adverse consequences of violence for individual children’s physical, cognitive and emotional development. Few studies have explored children’s own perspectives, experiences and responses, as actors within their own ‘social worlds’. Not all children exposed to violence develop psychological difficulties, but rather generate their own meanings and responses to violence and so manage, or indeed succeed, in the face of adversity.

Gender Violence in the Home and Childhoods in Vietnam

The majority of research on children and violence in the home has originated in the Global North, within a psychological framework which highlights the adverse consequences of violence for individual children’s physical, cognitive and emotional development. Few studies have explored children’s own perspectives, experiences and responses, as actors within their own ‘social worlds’. Not all children exposed to violence develop psychological difficulties, but rather generate their own meanings and responses to violence and so manage, or indeed succeed, in the face of adversity.

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Productive Safety Net Program and Children’s Time Use Between Work and Schooling in Ethiopia

Government, non-government, and donor organizations have developed a social assistance program known as Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) which has two sub-programs namely public work program (PWP) and Direct Support Program (DSP). PSNP is designed to reduce the vulnerability of poor people to drought and it targets household and in most cases without considering ex ante the issue of intra-household resource distribution.

Productive Safety Net Program and Children’s Time Use Between Work and Schooling in Ethiopia

Government, non-government, and donor organizations have developed a social assistance program known as Productive Safety Net Program (PSNP) which has two sub-programs namely public work program (PWP) and Direct Support Program (DSP). PSNP is designed to reduce the vulnerability of poor people to drought and it targets household and in most cases without considering ex ante the issue of intra-household resource distribution.

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Determinants of Malnutrition among Children in Andhra Pradesh, India

This essay looks into two main determinants of child health: income and education, using a panel dataset from India. Impact of per capita consumption expenditure on child nutritional status is investigated using a number of estimation methods including two stage least squares and panel methods. Income effect is found to explain only between 0 to 34 percent of the improvement in child health. Maternal education effect on child nutritional status is found to be stronger in urban areas and among the wealthier.

Determinants of Malnutrition among Children in Andhra Pradesh, India

This essay looks into two main determinants of child health: income and education, using a panel dataset from India. Impact of per capita consumption expenditure on child nutritional status is investigated using a number of estimation methods including two stage least squares and panel methods. Income effect is found to explain only between 0 to 34 percent of the improvement in child health. Maternal education effect on child nutritional status is found to be stronger in urban areas and among the wealthier.

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Beyond the rhetoric: understanding the links between child labour and education
Beyond the rhetoric: understanding the links between child labour and education

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Young Lives Theory of Change

We are one among many actors working to bring about positive change in children’s lives. We believe that the policies and programmes intended to support children and young people are more likely to be effective (and cost-effective) if they are based on rigorous evidence about children’s experiences, development and outcomes, and that longitudinal analysis has a particular role to play by allowing us to see how children’s lives change over time and how children’s outcomes are shaped, both by their earliest circumstances as well as risks and opportunities through to adulthood.

Young Lives Theory of Change

We are one among many actors working to bring about positive change in children’s lives. We believe that the policies and programmes intended to support children and young people are more likely to be effective (and cost-effective) if they are based on rigorous evidence about children’s experiences, development and outcomes, and that longitudinal analysis has a particular role to play by allowing us to see how children’s lives change over time and how children’s outcomes are shaped, both by their earliest circumstances as well as risks and opportunities through to adulthood.

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E-newsletter #17: Children's Work (June 2015)
E-newsletter #17: Children's Work (June 2015)
New book: Gender Violence in Poverty Contexts: The Educational Challenge
New book: Gender Violence in Poverty Contexts: The Educational Challenge
New book: Children's Work and Labour in East Africa
New book: Children's Work and Labour in East Africa
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