Child poverty
- A situational analysis of orphans and vulnerable children in four districts of South Africa
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This situational analysis in four districts in South Africa was conducted to gain information about services offered to orphans and vulnerable children (OVC) by government and NGOs and the situation of OVC in general, to identify strengths and weaknesses of these services and suggest possible ways of improving them.
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- Resources from Young Lives study on childhood poverty
- Young Lives, 2011
- Working papers from the Young Lives study....
- Joint statement on advancing child-sensitive social protection
- DFID, HelpAge International, Hope & Homes for Children Institute of Development Studies, ILO, / United Nations Children's Fund, 2010
- There is a growing body of evidence from a range of developing countries that social protection programmes can effectively increase the nutritional, health and educational status of children and reduc...
- Further evidence on the human development impact of unconditional programmes
- M. Samson;C. Heinrich;M. Williams / United Nations Children's Fund, 2008
- South Africa’s Child Support Grant, an unconditional social transfer programme, was originally designed to reduce poverty and promote social development for poor children under the age of sev...
- An overview of existing social protection programmes and childhood poverty in West and Central Africa
- R. Holmes;T. Braunholtz-Speight / Overseas Development Institute, 2009
- This report seeks to provide an overview of existing social protection policy and programming initiatives in the West and Central Africa and to assess the extent to which these address the particular ...
- Does socioeconomic status determine access to health care in Peru?
- C. Kristiansson (ed);E. Gotuzzo;H. Rodriguez /
- Orphanhood and chronic poverty in Indonesia: how do these factors impact on education and health?
- D. Suryadarma;Y. M. Pakpahan;A. Suryahadi / Chronic Poverty Research Centre, UK, 2009
- What are the impacts of of parental death and chronic poverty on children's education and health in Indonesia? This paper estimates the short- and long-term effects of maternal and paternal death on c...
- Impacts of parental death on the schooling and well-being of children in Ethiopia
- R. Himaz / Young Lives, 2009
- This paper investigates whether the death of a parent during middle childhood affects child schooling and subjective well-being (SWB) in Ethiopia. The data comes from two rounds of the Young Lives sur...
- Understanding child poverty using household-level data: the case of Vietnam
- K. Roelen;F. Gassmann;C. de Neubourg / Maastricht Graduate School of Governance, 2009
- For many in the developing world, a life of poverty begins at childhood. Poor children tend to grow up to be poor adults, which is why it is important to address child poverty. While household pove...
- Conditional cash transfer programmes and child labour
- G. I. Hirata / International Policy Centre for Inclusive Growth, 2008
- Conditional cash transfer (CCT) programmes provide cash to poor households. In return, the households are expected to meet the conditionalities attached to schooling, among others. Several evaluati...
- The determinants of and remedies for child and infant mortality in Kenya
- J. Kabubo-Mariara;M. Karienyeh;F. Mwangi / Poverty and Economic Policy Network , 2008
- Will Kenya achieve the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) on child survival by 2015? While child and infant mortality rates declined massively following Kenyan independence, progress since 19...
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