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 …

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 …

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. Using life course analysis from the Young
Lives study of 12,000 children growing up in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam over the past …

In this chapter the focus is on the consequences for children of growing up in poverty.
Growing up poor impacts on children's life chances, opportunities for social mobility, health …

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 …

Initial work done by the Chronic Poverty Research Centre (CPRC) suggests that the tightest
possible definition of chronic poverty would be intergenerationally transmitted (IGT) poverty …

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 …

Executive summary The intergenerational transmission (IGT) of poverty can be described as
the private and public transfer of deficits in assets and resources from one generation to …

In order to explain chronic poverty and determine how best to interrupt it, a clear and
coherent conceptual framework is necessary. The framework presented in this paper has …

Primary education is widely perceived to have a key role in reducing poverty and is
positively associated with development-related outcomes such as improving productivity …