Joan Maya Mazelis draws on in-depth interviews with poor people in Philadelphia to explore
how they survive and the benefits they gain by being connected to one another. Half of the …

In mid-2015, a team of 15 Congolese 'girl researchers' were recruited, trained, and mentored
by the UK's Department for International Development-funded La Pépinière programme …

This paper is about interconnections between women's empowerment and maternal health,
on the one hand, and the health of children and the escape probability from chronic poverty …

Current political rhetoric and some media commentaries suggest there is a yawning gap of
understanding between policymakers and the reality of families living in poverty in 21st …

Mainstream development actors are increasingly recognising the value of investment in
adolescent girls–and there has been remarkable progress over the past two decades in …

Girls around the world strive to realize their aspirations in the face of discrimination, lack of
educational opportunity and access to health services, and the threat of violence. Recent …

Western societies face many challenges. The growing inequality and the diminishing role of
the welfare state and the rapid accumulation of the resources of a finite planet at the top 1 …

Child poverty is persistent throughout the world, even in many wealthy countries. Among
Western industrialised countries, the United States has high child poverty rates (about 20 …

This paper brings together three themes that have become increasingly important in both
research and policy on inequality and disadvantage in the UK: child development, the life …