Background Gender disparities in education continue to undermine girls' opportunities,
despite enormous strides in recent years to improve primary enrolment and attainment for …

The distinguishing feature of chronic poverty is its long duration. It might be argued that the
most extreme form of chronic poverty is that which persists over an entire course of life or …

Janice Perlman wrote the first in-depth account of life in the favelas, a book hailed as one of
the most important works in global urban studies in the last 30 years. Now, in Favela …

The theory of spatial mismatch states that the physical separation of people from their
employment contributes to persistent unemployment and poverty. Although early research …

We analyse the determinants of social assistance receipt among young adults in three
Nordic countries, focusing on social-background and life-course events during early …

In Morocco, youth represent a large segment of society, but there are multiple structural
constraints, such as unemployment, particularly among graduates, which exposes them to a …

It is therefore important for policies, programmes and interventions to extend beyond
childhood and to take into account other key points in the life cycle, such as the transition …

Methods Researching experiences and viewpoints on economic adversity requires trust, as
well as techniques that will support young people to talk openly about difficult, sensitive and …

This article explores the relationship between conflict, education and the intergenerational
transmission of poverty in Northern Uganda using a Q‐squared approach, which combines …

It has become increasingly difficult for young Zambians to construct youth‐to‐adult
transitions that meet the normative expectations of coherent life trajectories towards being …