Children's experiences of Juntos, a conditional cash transfer scheme in Peru

Working paper

Even though it is widely recognised that children are the age group most affected by poverty, children’s own experiences of living in social and economic hardship are still not well incorporated into most poverty reduction strategies and programmes. The purpose of this study is to find out how children and families in three rural communities in the southern Peruvian Andes experience well-being and poverty, in order to understand what may help them to lead the kinds of lives they value inst...

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Authors: Streuli, N

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Young Lives Publisher's website
• Series: Working papers
• Place of publication: http://www.younglives.org.uk/publications/WP
• Publication date: 2012-01-01
• ISBN: 9781904427896
• Language: English
• Keywords: Peru; child poverty; inequality; social protection
• Subjects: Latin America; Poverty; Children and youth; Families,children and childcare; Evaluation of social policies,programmes and practice; Social Inequality