Nicola A. Jones

Child Poverty, Evidence and Policy: Mainstreaming Children in International Development

Buch

Recent studies suggest that current policy approaches to tackling childhood poverty have had limited efficacy. In the developing world, the problem is more challenging still, as highlighted by the large number of countries that are off track in meeting the child-related Millennium Development Goals. This timely book highlights the importance of integrating children's voices into the debate, bringing together a theoretical discussion of childhoods, children's experiences of poverty and development discourses, as well as empirical case studies from the developing world. Weaving together theory and mixed method approaches, the book provides an i… Mehr

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Produktdetails

Weitere Autoren: Sumner, Andy

ISBN: 978-1-84742-446-4
EAN: 9781847424464
Produktnummer: 33502493
Verlag: Policy Pr
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2011
Seitenangabe: 264 S.
Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.5 cm x D2.0 cm 544 g
Auflage: New
Gewicht: 544

Über den Autor

Nicola Jones is a Research Fellow in the Social Development Programme at the Overseas Development Institute where she works on issues related to knowledge and power in the social policy sector, with a particular focus on gender and childhood. Andy Sumner is a Fellow of the Vulnerability and Poverty Research team at the Institute of Development Studies. He is a cross-disciplinary economist. His primary foci of interest are: child poverty; the MDGs, and the politics of policy processes.