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  Changing Educational Aspirations of Children Living in Poverty in Ethiopia

  Young Lives, 2010

  Using both qualitative and quantitative data, this paper examines the changing educational and occupational aspirations and educational achievements of children living in poor communities in Ethiopia. The results suggest that children had high aspirations at an earlier age but that these changed later, with poverty rarely influencing their earlier aspirations but having a strong impact later on.
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  Do Pre-natal and Post-natal Economic Shocks Have a Long-lasting Effect on the Height of 5-year-old Children?

  Young Lives, 2010

  While the Ethiopian national emergency and food security programmes support farmers hit by area-wide shocks such as crop failure, idiosyncratic shocks such as illness and death of household member, loss of assets and separation or divorce are not covered.
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  Know Your Place: Ethiopian Children’s Contributions to the Household Economy

  Young Lives, 2010

  This paper combines quantitative and qualitative analysis to develop a comprehensive and nuanced understanding of children’s work, in particular, the role of the household in determining work roles. Using a cohort study of children from Ethiopia, we examine the intra-household distribution of labour and make comparisons between households.
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  WP44 - The Impact of Parental Death on Schooling and Subjective Well-being: Evidence from Ethiopia using Longitudinal Data

  Young Lives, 2009

  Parental death is one of the many risks faced by children in poor communities, especially in Africa in the context of the HIV/AIDS pandemic.While the death of a parent at any age is a significant and distressing event, Young Lives research in Ethiopia finds that the age the child is when a parent dies is important for outcomes later on.
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  Children and the Food Price Crisis

  Young Lives, 2008

  The sharp increase in food prices both in world markets and in local markets since 2006 has raised serious concerns about the food and nutrition situation of poor families in many countries. Particularly in urban areas, where people cannot grow their own food, household budgets have been squeezed.
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  Impacts of social protection programmes in Ethiopia on child work and education

  Young Lives, 2008

  Social protection measures are becoming an increasingly important policy tool for African governments. These measures have important potential for reducing poverty and positive impacts on child well-being.
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  Priority to Protect: Preventing Children’s Association with Village Defence Militias in Southern Thailand

  Coalition to Stop the Use of Child Soldiers, 2011

  This report addresses the recruitment and use of children in Chor Ror Bor (Village Defence Militias - Thailand). It also reflects briefly on concerns relating to the administrative detention of children suspected of association with armed opposition groups.
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  Youth vulnerabilities and adaptation: Exploring the impact of macro-level shocks on youth: 3F (food, fuel, financial) crisis and climate change in Ghana, Mozambique and Vietnam

  Overseas Development Institute, 2011

  The main component of the study, for which research was undertaken from July 2010 to February 2011, focused on understanding how the 3F crisis impacted on different areas of young people’s lives and development, mediated through macro- and meso-level processes at the national level.
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  The Impact of the Midday Meal Scheme on Nutrition and Learning

  Young Lives, 2010

  Food insecurity and poor nutrition remain a problem in many developing countries and can have profound effects on children’s health and their development. The Midday Meal Scheme in India is a programme covering primary school children to improve nutrition as well as increase educational enrolment, retention and attendance.
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  Early Childhood Care and Education as a Strategy for Poverty Reduction: Evidence from Young Lives

  Young Lives, 2010

  High-quality early childhood care and education (ECCE) is now recognised as a core strategy for poverty reduction. There is evidence of high returns from ECCE investments, which can contribute to global policy priorities such as tackling child malnutrition, increasing children’s successful participation in school, and strengthening economic development.

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