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	<title>Child Rights, Child Poverty and Gender Equity in Development </title>
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	<description>Equity for Children seeks to engage students, scholars, practitioners, governmental / non-profit organizations and the media with promoting awareness, increasing knowledge and advocating action about issues affecting equity for children and the realization of their rights.</description>
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		<title><![CDATA[EFC Talks with Dr. Jo Boyden and Director Alberto Minujin]]></title>
		<link>http://www.equityforchildren.org/efc-talks-with-dr-jo-boyden-and-director-alberto-minujin-810/index.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed 22 2012</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Child Rights, Child Poverty and Gender Equity in Development </dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Child Poverty & Wellbeing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[In this EFC Talks, we speak to the two experts on whether policy makers know what is best for children. At the symposium 'Tackling Child Poverty in the Twenty-first Century' that took place on February 8th at The New School, the Equity for Children team spoke to Young Lives Director Dr.Jo Boyden and Equity for Children Director Alberto Minujin.
Click HERE to read a summary of the presentations of the symposium Tackling Child Poverty in the Twenty-first Century.
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		<title><![CDATA[Panel Discussion with UNICEF on 'Children in an Urban World']]></title>
		<link>http://www.equityforchildren.org/panel-discussion-with-unicef-on-'children-in-an-urban-world'-808/index.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon 20 2012</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Child Rights, Child Poverty and Gender Equity in Development </dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[          
                									
On March 7, 2012, Equity for Children and UNICEF will host the panel discussion on Children in an Urban World, a discussion following UNICEF's initative The Status of the World's Children 2012.

&nbsp;
 &quot;CHILDREN IN AN URBAN WORLD&quot;

Following the international launch of UNICEF&rsquo;s 
The State of the World&rsquo;s Children 2012

Wednesday, 7 March 2012
5:00&ndash;7:30 p.m.


Wollman Hall, Eugene Lang Building
65 West 11th Street, 5th &#64258;oor
The New School
(enter at 66 West 12th Street between 5th and 6th avenues)


The world is increasingly urban &ndash; and so is the experience of childhood. Urban areas offer great potential to secure children&rsquo;s rights. Children growing up in cities and towns often fare better than their rural counterparts owing to higher standards of health, protection, education and sanitation. But urban advances have been uneven, and millions of children living in poverty or enduring marginalization in urban settings confront daily challenges and deprivations.
&nbsp;

The State of the World&rsquo;s Children 2012 examines the situation of children in urban areas today. This discussion panel will build on the report&rsquo;s critical themes through thought-provoking presentations by analysts, practitioners and children.

PROGRAM
5:00 pm Welcome and Introductions
Welcome by Neil Grabois, Dean, Milano School of International Affairs, Management, and Urban Policy
Introduction by Khaled Mansour, Director, Division of Communication, UNICEF
Introduction by Michael Cohen, Director, International Affairs Program,The New School
5:10 pm Discussion Panel
Panelists:

* ATD Fourth World Movement Youth Group
* Mark Montgomery 
Professor, Economics Department, State University of NewYork at Stony Brook
* Pamela Wridt 
Co-director, Children&rsquo;s Environments Research Group,The Graduate Centre, City University of NewYork
* Alberto Minujin
Professor, Graduate Program in International Affairs Director, Equity for Children,The New School
* Robert Jenkins 

Associate Director, Division of Policy and Practice, UNICEF
Discussant: Sue Le-Ba, Research Officer, Division of Communication, UNICEF
Moderator: Nikola Balvin, Research Officer, Division of Communication, UNICEF
6:45pm Q&amp;A

7:15pm Refreshments





* For more information, please see attached file
 

* To attend the event, please RSVP to equityforchildren@newschool.edu
 

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		<title><![CDATA[Equity for Children partners with Dept. of Childhood Studies, Rutgers University]]></title>
		<link>http://www.equityforchildren.org/equity-for-children-partners-with-dept-of-childhood-studies-rutgers-university-806/index.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon 20 2012</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Child Rights, Child Poverty and Gender Equity in Development </dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Equity for Children is proud to announce its new partnership with the Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University beginning February 2012. The partnership has been realized after a full year of dicussions led by Professor Alberto Minujin at The New School and Professor Charles Watters at Rutgers University.
Equity for Children is an initiative that seeks to influence the agenda and action toward the realization of children rights, social justice and equity for boys and girls around the world. Equity for Children&rsquo;s focus is taking action to eliminate child poverty, reduce inequality and ensure full citizenship through sound social policies in the context of the Convention of the Rights of the Child, adopted in 1989 by the United Nations General Assembly.&nbsp; Equity has developed a website and programs as spaces to share and debate ideas, experience and research on these themes. 
Since its founding in 2008, Equity for Children has extended its reach to two other languages and cultures: Equidad para la Infancia / Equidade para Infancia, in Spanish and Portuguese respectively.&nbsp; Both focus on the Latin America agenda for children.&nbsp; Through connection with more than 300 institutions such as universities, research centers and NGOs, our program has launched and hosted several events and seminars with partner agencies, as well as published policy papers from experts in-house and around the world.
The partnership with the Department of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University in Camden, New Jersey will add a dimension of knowledge and research to Equity from among the finest universities in the United States. The professors, PhD students and network established by the Center will help leverage the contribution of knowledge and ideas.
Together, Equity for Children and the Childhood Studies Department will collaborate on the creation, dissemination and exchange of knowledge.&nbsp; One example is the Young Lives Project Presentation, to take place in February 2012.&nbsp; Another is the 2013 International Conference on Migration and Children, to be held in Camden and New York. Professors, students professionals in the field and all those interested in improving the lives of children around the world will benefit from the program of exchange that we will create.&nbsp;&nbsp; ]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Young Lives Panel Discussion at The New School]]></title>
		<link>http://www.equityforchildren.org/young-lives-panel-discussion-at-the-new-school-802/index.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat 18 2012</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Child Rights, Child Poverty and Gender Equity in Development </dc:creator>
		<category><![CDATA[Child Poverty & Wellbeing]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[On Wednesday, February 8,  Equity for Children at The New School  presented a symposium entitled  Tackling Child Poverty in the Twenty-First Century by the Young Lives Project , a group of researchers at the University of Oxford. Co-hosted with The City University of New York (CUNY) and Rutgers University&rsquo;s Department of Childhood Studies, the discussions offered a unique opportunity to learn about emerging trends from Young Lives&rsquo; ongoing longitudinal study of 12,000 individuals conducted over 15 years in four countries: India, Vietnam, Ethiopia, and Peru. Those in attendance represented policy makers and academics from around the world who are dedicated to alleviating childhood poverty.

The Young Lives study is unique in its scope, length and its focus on the children in the developing world. Not only does the study promise to present a tremendous wealth of information, but also offers the opportunity to transform the way policy makers think about and analyze issues related to childhood poverty.

 Dr. Jo Boyden, Director of Young Lives, University of Oxford , launched the session by offering the idea that policy makers tend to address children through individual sectors that often fail to coordinate effectively to describe and address children&rsquo;s needs. The Young Lives study attempts to provide information to bridge these gaps and promote policies that are more reflective of the challenges impoverished children face. This framework enables researchers and policy makers to trace the intersections of multiple forms of deprivation and understand how poverty and inequality are transmitted generationally. The approach attempts to combine policy with, as Dr. Boyden explains, &ldquo;the lives that are lived&rdquo;. 

Panelists identified the gap between policy at the international and national level, which depict the needs of children as universal, offering solutions that tend to be rigid and indicative of a fundamentalist approach to the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Instead, the researchers assert, due to the world&rsquo;s rapid economic growth and globalization, childhood is quite variable both socially and spatially. For example, respondents indicate that education programs and targets often embrace universal standards for school attendance that are inflexible and prove to be incompatible with poorer children&rsquo;s important roles as caregivers and earners within the household. 

The Young Lives study aims to provide better evidence of the actual rhythms of children&rsquo;s lives in the context of their families, in order to better address the real needs of poor children. Dr. Boyden pointed out that policy often targets risks to young and adolescent girls that are not necessarily shared by parents, and may be perceived as dismissive of parents&rsquo; concerns about the social issues their daughters face by forsaking their traditional roles in order to obtain an education. 

Young Lives Researchers  Paul Dornan, Senior Policy Officer , and  Andreas Georgiadis, Research Officer , spoke about the rapid economic growth experienced by all four countries since the study began in 2002, and its effect on the research and analysis. They noted the resulting positive effects in the lives of children, such as decreased stunting in all countries except India, increased levels of household consumption, and increased school enrollment rates across the board. These gains, however, often mask growing inequalities such as the poorest children frequently gaining the least and the least needy benefitting most. 

Dr. Georgiadis emphasized that persistent inequality on one dimension can lead to persistent inequality on another. He referred specifically to stunting, which has been shown to predict poor cognitive performance later in life. Stunting at age 8 is linked to increased rates of lower self-esteem and lower aspiration levels at age 12. Both negatively impact adult performance in the labor market. 

 Dr. Martin Woodhead, Professor of Childhood Studies at The Open University , spoke about public and private education and their value for parents and children. Despite assumptions that parents may fail to understand the benefits of educating children, and therefore block enrollment, Young Lives research shows that parents are in fact very aware of, and optimistic about, the benefits of education. Their active search for better schools is described by Dr. Woodhead as a major reason for the growth of private schools in India. The privatization trend has important ramifications for the international community&rsquo;s attempt to ensure universal education through partnerships with national governments. It has the potential to further exacerbate inequalities if public education is increasingly abandoned.

The panelists noted that a growing gender gap exists in both private and public schools, with poorer families increasingly sending sons to private schools and daughters to public schools. In interviews with parents about how they determine who to send to private school, gender was rarely mentioned as a deciding factor. This illustrates another theme raised several times in the discussion: gender discrimination is not expressed in a simplistic fashion, but is instead reflected in parents&rsquo; economic rationality and their desire to protect their daughters both physically and socially. 

Another important aspect of the Young Lives study is the qualitative interviews with children about their personal feelings and understanding the poverty they experience. The study reveals that children often define poverty differently than adults do. They do not worry as much about potential environmental and economic shocks as their parents, but are much more concerned with chronic illness within their households. They reflect much more frequently on the pain of social isolation and stigmatization. The voices of these children offer a unique opportunity to move beyond the technical face of deprivation and gain an understanding of how these impacts are internalized and interpreted by children. 

 Professor Alberto Minujin from Equity for Children  and the New School Graduate Program in International Affairs responded, challenging participants to question whether rather than talking about poor children and their circumstances, we should look at how the structures of society and economics reinforce inequalities. He drew attention to the need to analyze horizontal and vertical inequalities (both across societies and across the life-course) and commented that intra-household analysis of this type develops unique survey evidence.

A wide-ranging and lively discussion ensued, particularly around growth and disparities that are emerging between different groups but also within urban areas (which will be a focus of the forthcoming UNICEF report on the State of the World&rsquo;s Children). Young Lives is a multidimensional study.  Most policymaking for children, however, occurs in sectoral ministries or silos within international organizations, making it difficult to generate policies that work together instead of competing for resources. 

A comparison was drawn between some of the approaches that have been adopted in relation to children&rsquo;s rights and a recent strategy adopted for women&rsquo;s rights under the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women (CEDAW), in which the &lsquo;venacularization&rsquo; of human rights at the local level was bringing about gradual alignment of local and globalized values. From a child-rights perspective, it is important to develop child protection policies that recognize on-the-ground realities, enabling families to do the best for their children rather than making use of punitive measures to regulate their decisions and actions.

A final comment was made about how poverty can be defined to widen this to include other indicators alongside economic ones &ndash; to reflect participation or powerlessness.

For those of our viewers that could not attend the panel discussion 'Tackling Child Poverty in the Twenty-first Century', the presentations given on February 8th at The New School can be downloaded on the Young Lives website HERE .]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Franciscan Girls' Education Fund]]></title>
		<link>http://www.equityforchildren.org/franciscan-girls'-education-fund-795/index.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu 08 2011</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Franciscan Girls' Education Fund is a NGO in Kenya run by Father Benedict Ayodi, who works to provide sustainable opportunity to girl orphan children in Kenya. We interviewed Father Benedict to hear about the importance of giving these girls attention, and the meaning of education in their lives.

If you have any questions or would like to help these girls with a donation, please contact us at equityforchildren@newschool.edu
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		<title><![CDATA[Young Lives Findings]]></title>
		<link>http://www.equityforchildren.org/young-lives-findings-790/index.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed 07 2011</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[
&nbsp;After the Young Lives Seminar &amp; Presentation at The New School and The City University of New York in New York City (CUNY), country reports and summaries from the third survey are available to download.

&nbsp; The reports feature material on:
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;Understanding the changes in the lives&nbsp;of poor children: Initial findings from&nbsp;Ethiopia
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The impact of growth on childhood poverty in Andhra Pradesh: Initial findings from&nbsp;India
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tackling Disparities: Who gets left behind? Initial findings from&nbsp;Peru
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; How children are faring in the new millennium; initial findings from&nbsp;Vietnam
The Young Lives project is a longitudinal study of childhood poverty in&nbsp;Ethiopia,&nbsp;India&nbsp;(Andhra Pradesh),&nbsp;Peru&nbsp;and&nbsp;Vietnam, involving 12,000 children in four countries over 15 years. The research data has been collected from 2002 and will continue until 2016.
Young Lives collects data on two cohorts, aged around 8 and 15 years old in 2009.&nbsp; The reports describe trends over the lives of the children up to now and also present comparisons between the two cohorts at the same age.&nbsp; It examines changes in their lives over the period in a range of areas, including monetary poverty trends, education, nutritional status, subjective well-being, time use, shocks and adverse events and national policy programs.
Patterns vary by country, but core themes emerge, including the following:
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Household increases in consumption and wealth levels were reported, along with some improvements in access to basic services.
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The data show high and ongoing exposure to risk and adverse events both before and during the triple food price crisis with extreme food price volatility. Food inflation was reported by many families.
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The survey data highlight small improvements in some indicators of child well-being, at a significantly slower rate than the very fast economic growth experienced over the period.&nbsp; These results reinforce concerns about the extent to which economic growth is yielding direct benefits for children in the region.
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The data show a clear, continuing pattern of interlinked inequalities often faced by the same groups of children.&nbsp; They show an accumulation of inequalities over the course of the 2002-2009 study, or over the life of the children.

The research findings were presented at the Young Lives Seminar and Presentation hosted by Equity for Children at The New School with CUNY and Rutgers University on February 7-8, 2012. Click HERE to find out more about the February seminar, or email your questions to us.
To download the Young Lives country reports, click HERE.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Expert Interviews on Child Poverty in East Asia and the Pacific]]></title>
		<link>http://www.equityforchildren.org/expert-interviews-on-child-poverty-in-east-asia-and-the-pacific-789/index.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed 07 2011</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Click below to hear more about the Child Poverty in East Asia and the Pacific: Deprivations and Disparities report from Author and Director of Equity for Children, Alberto Minujin and Social Policy Advisor at UNICEF East Asia Pacific Regional Office, Mahesh Patel.
&nbsp;
Interview with Director Alberto Minujin
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Interview with Social Policy Advisor at UNICEF East Asia Pacific Regional Office, Mahesh Patel
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		<title><![CDATA[Child Poverty in East Asia and the Pacific: Deprivations and Disparities]]></title>
		<link>http://www.equityforchildren.org/child-poverty-in-east-asia-and-the-pacific-deprivations-and-disparities-786/index.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue 06 2011</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Child Rights, Child Poverty and Gender Equity in Development </dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This study, written by Equity for Children&rsquo;s Director Alberto Minujin with UNICEF East Asia Pacific, is the first measurement of multidimensional child poverty at the regional level in East Asia and the Pacific. It is based on data from seven countries in the region: Cambodia, Lao PDR, Mongolia, Philippines, Thailand, Vanuatu and Viet Nam. The study results show that, of the 93 million children living in these seven countries, approximately 54% experience poverty as measured by deprivation of basic needs.

In 2006, approximately 36% of the children suffered severe deprivation in at least one of the seven dimensions identified as relevant for child poverty: food, water, shelter, sanitation, health, education and information.&nbsp; Further, approximately 14% suffered from severe deprivation on multiple dimensions. In the group of countries with the highest rates of child poverty (Cambodia, Lao PDR and Mongolia), approximately 83% of children were severely deprived in at least one dimension.

The study also highlights existing disparities within countries in the region. For example, children from ethnic minority groups in Viet Nam are 11 times more likely to suffer from multiple severe deprivations than children from ethnic majority groups, an unfortunate pattern found in many countries. Child poverty was 30% higher in rural Cambodia than in urban areas, 60% higher in rural Thailand and 130% higher in rural Philippines. Inequity and exclusion are important factors in discussing and eliminating child poverty.]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Improving the Odds for Adolescents]]></title>
		<link>http://www.equityforchildren.org/improving-the-odds-for-adolescents-779/index.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed 09 2011</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This report, written by Susan Wile Schwarz and Yumiko Aratani from the National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP), looks at how well the United States is currently meeting the health and development needs of all adolescents and particularly of disadvantaged youth. 
For policymakers, adolescence presents an invaluable opportunity to ensure that all young people can access the high-quality services and supports they need to improve their odds of becoming successful, healthy, productive adults. At an historic moment when the provisions and breadth of health care reform are under vigorous debate, it is important to know whether the states meet the health and development needs of adolescents. This report presents information from NCCP&rsquo;s Improving the Odds for Adolescents project about state policy choices that affect the health and well-being of adolescents.
For adolescents whose family income is up to 200 percent of the federal poverty line (FPL), almost every state offers public health insurance coverage through the Children&rsquo;s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), and about a third offer coverage through Medicaid. Variability exists among states&rsquo; choices to extend coverage to different groups of vulnerable youth. Only about one-fifth of states do not terminate Medicaid enrollment for juvenile justice-involved youth.

Most states recognize the key role schools play in promoting the health and well-being of their students. However, there has been noticeably less agreement in how integrated and extensive this role should be and whether it should include health services provision. More than half of states have specific health-related curricula requirements, including physical education requirements, and about a third fund direct health services offered by school-based health centers. Health curricula in nearly two-thirds of states must cover prevention of HIV, sexually transmitted infections, and pregnancy. Yet, only one-fifth require schools to provide any services related to this prevention.

Nearly all states may allow adolescents to consent to a variety of reproductive health and family planning services, with the exception of abortion services, but very few have policies explicitly dictating who can and cannot consent to services and whether confidentiality will be maintained. Lack of clarity about the right to consent and confidentiality can cause confusion among service providers and especially among adolescents in need of care.
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		<title><![CDATA[Young Lives Presentation and Seminar]]></title>
		<link>http://www.equityforchildren.org/young-lives-presentation-and-seminar-777/index.html</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed 09 2011</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Child Rights, Child Poverty and Gender Equity in Development </dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Equity for Children, City University of New York (CUNY) and Rutgers University will cohost the Young Lives Presentation and Seminar from February 7-8, 2012 at The New School.&nbsp; This is to present the findings that the Young Lives research team at Oxford University released after 15 years of research, on 12,000 children in four countries: Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam. 

Young Lives is coordinated by a team based at the ,, led by Jo Boyden. Other senior research staff include Stefan Dercon of Oxford and Martin Woodhead of The Open University.

Young Lives is a unique international study of childhood poverty following the changing lives of 12,000 children in four countries &ndash; Ethiopia, India (in Andhra Pradesh), Peru and Vietnam &ndash; over 15 years. This is the timeframe set by the UN to assess progress towards the Millennium Development Goals.

Young Lives collects a wealth of information about the children&rsquo;s material and social circumstances, as well as their views on their everyday lives, their hopes and aspirations, set against the environmental and social realities of their communities.

Two groups of children are observed in each country:
2,000 children born in 2001&ndash;02; and 1,000 children born in 1994&ndash;95.
The fact that the research spans the first 15 years of the children&rsquo;s lives means that it also examines how children change over time, and is able to observe a range of situations, including both rural and urban upbringings, poor and not-so-poor areas, larger and smaller families,&nbsp; migration as well as other circumstances.

The two-day seminar will focus on the following issues:

&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Development and inequality
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Impact of economic crisis on children and adolescents
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Relationship between development and psycho-development
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Relationship between nutrition &amp; cognition
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Education as a driver for development rather than equity and equality
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Communities and schools evaluating different skill sets
&bull;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Gender and inequality 

Young Lives receives its funding in a core grant from 2001 to 2017 from UK aid from in the Department for International Development (DFID). It is co-funded from 2010 to 2014 by the Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Funders of sub-studies include the Bernard van Leer Foundation and the Oak Foundation.]]></description>
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