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Gender, agency, and poverty: children’s everyday experiences in Andhra Pradesh and Vietnam
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‘Children’s agency’ and ‘children as social actors’ have become taken for granted in much social science research (James 2009). In studies on childhood, agency has been accepted as a universal feature of what it means to be a child, and in international development, ‘children’s participation’ is an increasingly accepted principle (Vandenbroeck and Bouverne-De Bie 2006). In development, the notion of ‘empowerment’ suggests that power is something that can be bestowed on individuals or grou...
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- 95-114
- Host title:
- Growing Up in Poverty: Findings from Young Lives
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- 2014-08-05
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- 9781349487165
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