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

Mainstream development actors are increasingly recognising the value of investment in girls
and young women-and there has been remarkable progress over the last two decades in …

This article asks why some children growing up in poverty seem to fare well, despite the
odds being stacked against them early in life. The data come from Young Lives, a 15-year …

There has been increased attention to children and development, and children's
development, in international policy debates in recent years, reflected in the United Nations …

Shortlisted for BBC Radio 4's Thinking Allowed's second Ethnography Awards in partnership
with the British Sociological Association! Educational Binds of Poverty tackles the …

Does childhood poverty lead to adult poverty? Evidence shows childhood is a sensitive
period for developing cognition, physical vitality and personality. This is traceable to specific …

Children growing up in povertyi experience many disadvantages which accumulate across
the life cycle. Poverty has multiple, negative impacts on children's outcomes leading to …

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 …

Now, more than ever, it is crucial to address the topic of children and poverty in the US,
given current scientific knowledge about poverty's influence on children and effective …