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Tackling Child Poverty in Latin America

Author : Alberto Minujin
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 3838269179
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Tackling Child Poverty in Latin America written by Alberto Minujin and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-15 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book highlights current debates about concepts, methods, and policies related to poverty in Latin America. It focuses on child and adolescent well-being and the issue of inclusive societies. Its goal is to promote new and critical thinking about these issues globally and in Latin America. The authors emphasize the need to develop new conceptual and practical avenues that can address the issues of poverty, marginalization, exclusion, and old and new inequalities in post-neoliberal times. The objective is to advance the rights of all children and adolescents in the region. This urgent book represents a unique opportunity for practitioners, policy makers, researchers, and students to get access to the most up-to-date perspectives on child poverty and inequality from a conceptual and practical point of view.

Living and Working in Poverty in Latin America

Author : María Eugenia Rausky
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030009017
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Living and Working in Poverty in Latin America written by María Eugenia Rausky and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume studies the complex interrelation of poverty, work, and different stages in the life course, and how it contributes to the permanent existence of poverty and inequality in vulnerable groups in society. Mechanisms of productions and reproduction of these relationships are identified through empirical research carried out in four Latin American countries: Mexico, Argentina, Brazil, and Cuba. This book centers on the experiences of individuals in those less favored social groups who may have suffered structural poverty for decades, or who may have been simply deprived of a basic income to cover their most essential needs.

Hidden Lives

Author : Duncan Green
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Hidden Lives written by Duncan Green and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1998 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the lives of the street children of Latin America through their own eyes and voices, Hidden Lives builds on the concept of children's rights enshrined in the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child. Through interviews with children across the continent, as well as teachers, welfare workers and other adults involved in their lives, Green argues forcefully that child participation is both a fight and a necessity if child-centered social programs are to succeed. More broadly, harnessing the energy of children could help the region tackle pressing environmental and social problems.

Do Our Children Have a Chance?

Author : José R. Molinas Vega
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 0821389025
Total Pages : 175 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (213 download)

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Download or read book Do Our Children Have a Chance? written by José R. Molinas Vega and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2011-11-16 with total page 175 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume reports on the status and evolution of human opportunity in Latin America and the Caribbean by tracking equity in access to key services using newly-available data.

Escaping the Poverty Trap

Author : Amartya Sen
Publisher : IDB
ISBN 13 : 9781931003568
Total Pages : 140 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (35 download)

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Download or read book Escaping the Poverty Trap written by Amartya Sen and published by IDB. This book was released on 2003 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Basing their discussions on the concept of "intergenerational transmission of poverty"--the "process by which poor parents pass on poverty and disadvantage to their children," in the words of editor Moran (until recently a senior economist with the International Development Bank's Sustainable Development Department)--five essays reflect on political, philosophical, social, and other dimensions of investing in early childhood in Latin America. The essays include Amartya Sen's discussion of early childhood investment within the context of the overall development process, as well explorations of the relationship between health, nutrition, and cognitive and social dimensions of poverty; the impact of early childhood investment on economic growth and equity; and the role of the state in marshalling resources for early childhood investment. Distributed by Johns Hopkins U. Press. Annotation : 2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

Global Child Poverty and Well-Being

Author : Alberto Minujin Z.
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1847424813
Total Pages : 623 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Global Child Poverty and Well-Being written by Alberto Minujin Z. and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2012-02-29 with total page 623 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Of the countless people around the world enduring deprivation and tremendous suffering from poverty and malnutrition, hundreds of millions are children. But research on poverty and development has only relatively recently begun to focus on this aspect of global poverty. Featuring contributions from leading researchers, this book examines how child poverty and well-being are conceptualized, defined, and measured and presents regional and national studies of child poverty from around the world. Global Child Poverty and Well-Being is an urgent call to arms for researchers and policymakers to confront one of the world's great ongoing tragedies.

Children's Work, Schooling, And Welfare In Latin America

Author : David Post
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429981341
Total Pages : 232 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Children's Work, Schooling, And Welfare In Latin America written by David Post and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-02-23 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the 1980s through the 1990s, children in many areas of the world benefited from new opportunities to attend school, but they also faced new demands to support their families because of continuing and, for many, worsening poverty. Children's Work, Schooling, And Welfare In Latin America is a comparative study of children, ages 12-17, in three different Latin American societies. Using nationally-representative household surveys from Chile, Peru, and Mexico, and repeatedly over different survey years, David Post documents tendencies for children to become economically active, to remain in school, or to do both. The survey data analyzed illustrates the roles of family and regional poverty, and parental resources, in determining what children did with their time in each country. However, rather than to treat children's activities merely as demographic phenomena, or in isolation of the policy environment, Post also scrutinizes the international differences in education policies, labor law, welfare spending, and mobilization for children's rights. Children's Work shows that child labor will not vanish of its own accord, nor follow a uniform path even within a common geographic region. Accordingly, there is a role for welfare policy and for popular mobilization. Post indicates that, even when children attend school, as in Peru or Mexico, many students will continue to work to support the family. If the consequence of their work is to impede their educational success, then schools will need to attend to a new dimension of inequality: that between part-time and full-time students.

The Urban Poor in Latin America

Author : Marianne Fay
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Urban Poor in Latin America written by Marianne Fay and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2005 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: About half of the region's poor live in cities, and policy makers across Latin America are increasingly interested in policy advice on how to design programmes and policies to tackle poverty. This publication argues that the causes of poverty, the nature of deprivation, and the policy levers to fight poverty are, to a large extent, site specific. It therefore focuses on strategies to assist the urban poor in making the most of the opportunities offered by cities, such as larger labour markets and better services, while helping them cope with the negative aspects, such as higher housing costs, pollution, risk of crime and less social capital.

Child Labor and Education in Latin America

Author : P. Orazem
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230620108
Total Pages : 229 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Child Labor and Education in Latin America written by P. Orazem and published by Springer. This book was released on 2009-03-30 with total page 229 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines the facts concerning child labour in Latin America, how it varies over time; across countries; and in comparison to other areas of the world. It aims to improve the understanding of root causes and consequences of persistent child labour and to contribute to the policy debate.

Child Poverty in the Developing World

Author : Gordon, David
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1861345593
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (613 download)

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Download or read book Child Poverty in the Developing World written by Gordon, David and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2003-10-21 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This report presents the first ever scientific measurement of the extent and depth of child poverty in developing regions. This measurement is based upon internationally agreed definitions arising from the international framework of child rights. Indicators of severe deprivation of basic human need for shelter, sanitation, safe water, information, health, education and food were constructed using survey data on nearly 1.2 million children in 46 countries collected mainly during the late 1990's. This is the largest, most accurate survey sample of children ever assembled.

Left Behind

Author : Renos Vakis
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464806616
Total Pages : 156 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)

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Download or read book Left Behind written by Renos Vakis and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2016-07-26 with total page 156 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One out of every five Latin Americans or around 130 million people have never known anything but poverty, subsisting on less than US$4-a-day throughout their lives. These are the region ́s chronically poor, who have remained so despite unprecedented inroads against poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean since the turn of the century. Left Behind: Chronic Poverty in Latin America and the Caribbean takes a closer look at the region’s entrenched poor, who and where they are, and how existing policies need to change in order to effectively assist them. The book shows significant variations of rates of chronic poverty both across and within countries. Within a single country, some regions show incidence rates up to eight times higher than the lowest. Despite the higher rates of chronic poverty in rural areas, chronic poverty is as much an urban as a rural issue. In fact, considering absolute numbers, urban areas in many countries, including Chile, Brazil, Mexico, Colombia and the Dominican Republic, have more chronic poor than rural areas. Undoubtedly the region has come a long way during the decade in terms of poverty reduction, guided by a mix of sustained growth and increased levels in amounts and quality of public spending and programs targeted directly or indirectly to the chronic poor. While improving endowments and the context where the chronic poor live is a necessary condition going forward, the decade’s experience suggests that it may not be enough to reach the chronic poor. The book posits that refinements to the existing policy toolkit †“ as opposed to more programs †“ may come a long way in helping the remaining poor. These refinements include intensifying efforts to improve coordination between different social and economic programs, which can boost the income generation process and deal with the intergenerational transmission of chronic poverty by investing in early childhood development. Equally important though, there is an urgent need to adapt programs to directly address the psychological toll of chronic poverty on people’s mindset and aspirations, which currently undermines the effectiveness of the existing policy efforts.

Child Work and Education

Author : Maria Cristina Salazar
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429871058
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Child Work and Education written by Maria Cristina Salazar and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-12-07 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published in 1998. In recent years research, as well as the results of practical programmes, has led to a clearer understanding of the relationship between child work and education. It is increasingly evident that child work is not entirely the result of economic need or exploitation. Frequently is the failure of educational system to offer adequate, stimulating and affordable schooling that encourages children to drop out in favour of work that appears to offer advantages more relevant to their everyday lives. Parents too may undervalue the role and purpose of a school that provides inadequate preparation for the future and often see a job, including home-based work, as a positive alternative to crime, delinquency or begging. Consequently, while a distinction needs to be made between ‘formative child work’ and ‘harmful child work’, in certain situations and cultures the phenomenon is not always seen as negative. Yet, although gratifying in the short term and sometimes even providing the means for a younger child to attend school as well as a way of learning discipline and responsibility, often these jobs provide no useful experience and do not lead to an improvement in the personal development of life chances of a child. The situation is therefore complex and requires a more realistic evolution of the relationship between archaic pedagogy, dropout rates and child work. These five case studies from Latin America all reveal the effects of inappropriate school curricular. Desertion of the educational system for the labour market leads to inadequate training and perpetuates the poverty trap. As part of the commitment to combating work which is detrimental to the child, major educational reform is needed. Improvements in coverage, quality and affordability should lead to greater acceptance pf schooling at all levels of society and provide a greater incentive for parents and children alike to participate more fully in the system. Moreover, in cases of severe economic hardship and forced or harmful labour, practical assistance with subsides and scholarships should be considered to remove children from such work.

Child Poverty, Evidence and Policy

Author : Nicola A. Jones
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1847424457
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (474 download)

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Download or read book Child Poverty, Evidence and Policy written by Nicola A. Jones and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2011-02-23 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. This book is about the ideas, networks and institutions that shape the development of evidence about child poverty and wellbeing, and the use of such evidence in development policy debates.

The Youngest Citizens

Author : Amy Risley
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351684132
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (516 download)

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Download or read book The Youngest Citizens written by Amy Risley and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-06-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Youngest Citizens traces the historical evolution of children’s rights in Latin America before turning its focus to the dramatic shift in discourse and policy experienced by the continent in the last 20 years. This book explores the new global regime on childhood, child advocates’ sustained efforts to influence domestic policy, the ongoing challenges they face, and the implications for democracy and citizenship in Latin America. Risley addresses the disconnect between rights granted and the realities that young people face through in-depth case studies of child advocacy and legislation to prove that rights in theory do not suffice; the status of children must be improved in practice. Key issues are discussed, such as child labor in Bolivia and Brazil, child soldiers in Colombia, child sexual exploitation in Costa Rica and Mexico, and unaccompanied child migrants detained at the United States’ southern border. The Youngest Citizens takes the cautiously optimistic view that children themselves are increasingly being recognized as rights-bearing subjects and included in the decisions affecting them. This book is an essential text for both undergraduate and graduate students interested in Latin American studies, with a focus on themes surrounding childhood and the family, human rights, and migration.

Children and Youth in National Development in Latin America

Author : United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America
Publisher : [New York] : United Nations Children's Fund
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Children and Youth in National Development in Latin America written by United Nations. Economic Commission for Latin America and published by [New York] : United Nations Children's Fund. This book was released on 1966 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Poverty In Latin America

Author : Gladys Lopez-Acevedo
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (847 download)

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Download or read book Poverty In Latin America written by Gladys Lopez-Acevedo and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Child Poverty, Youth (Un)Employment, and Social Inclusion

Author : Maria Petmesidou
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 3838269128
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (382 download)

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Download or read book Child Poverty, Youth (Un)Employment, and Social Inclusion written by Maria Petmesidou and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-11 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Worldwide child and youth poverty remain the biggest barrier to achieving a better life in adulthood. Progress in lifting children out of poverty in the last decades has been slow and limited in the developing world, while the recent global economic crisis has exacerbated child poverty, youth unemployment, and social exclusion in many developed countries. This book critically examines the long-term consequences of growing up poor, the close linkages between deprivation and human rights violations in childhood and adolescence, and their effects on labor market entry and future career in a number of developing and developed countries. Drawing on multiple disciplinary perspectives, it makes a forceful case for the eradication of child poverty to take center stage in the Sustainable Development Goals.