Childhood, adolescence and early adulthood remain for many girls and young women a
period of deprivation, danger and vulnerability, resulting in lack of agency and critical …

This book offers practical approaches to improve and empower the lives of at-risk, low-
income, urban-based girls and young women. It does this by presenting successful projects …

Youth poverty is a serious global problem, not least because of the large numbers of youth
and children living in absolute poverty in developing countries. In many contexts, youth are …

Child poverty is rising across affluent Western societies; how it is measured is vital to how
governments act to prevent, alleviate or eliminate it. While the roots of childhood poverty are …

Childhood poverty matters—not only because of the disturbingly high number of children
affected, but also because of the deleterious impact on their human flourishing, both now …

This report draws together data from the Young Lives survey and in-depth interviews to
analyse gendered differences between boys and girls, focusing on three key areas …

In this paper, we explore the conditions of childhood that can lead to poverty throughout the
lifecourse and affect transfers of poverty to the next generation. The largely inconclusive …

C hildren are often hardest hit by poverty: it causes lifelong damage to their minds and
bodies. They are therefore likely to pass poverty on to their children, perpetuating the …

Adolescence is increasingly recognised as a critical period for capacity growth, one which
presents development actors with a unique opportunity to alter life trajectories across …

Bringing together new, multidisciplinary research, this book explores how children and
young people across Europe, Asia, Africa and the Americas experience and cope with …