Poverty, risk and families’ responses: evidence from Young Lives

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This paper brings together existing Young Lives research and policy analysis, alongside new findings, to argue that poverty and inequalities are at the heart of childhood risk, shaping which children are at risk, access to sources of protection, and children’s life chances. Drawing on the rounds of survey and qualitative data collection conducted to date, it illustrates how risk is mediated through poverty and structural disadvantage, meaning that children from groups with low social status, ...

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Authors: Pells, K

• Alternative title: Policy Paper 4
• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Reviewed (other)
• Publisher: Young Lives Publisher's website
• Publication date: 2011-01-01
• Language: English
• Keywords: Vietnam; India; poverty; health; children; Peru; Ethiopia; shocks; risk; vulnerability
• Subjects: Families; Development and Refugees (see also Sociology); Children and youth; Sociology; Poverty; Social policy & social work