'Even if she learns, she doesn't understand properly'. Children's understandings of ill-being and poverty in five Ethiopian communities

Journal article

The paper argues on the basis of data from Young Lives, an international study of childhood poverty, and an extensive review of child-centred poverty studies that experiences of relative poverty and social exclusion are as common and corrosive in contemporary Ethiopia as North America and Europe. If taken seriously, this insight could broaden the focus of child poverty reduction from nutrition and education to include the psychosocial costs of lacking the culturally-specific resource...

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Authors: Camfield, L

• Publication status: Published
• Peer review status: Peer reviewed
• Publisher: Springer Science+Business Media B. V.
• Journal: Social Indicators Research
• Publication date: 2009-01-01
• DOI: 10.1007/s11205-009-9468-z
• EISSN: 1573-0921
• ISSN: 0303-8300
• Language: English
• Keywords: social relationships; children; poverty; participatory methods; Ethiopia; ill-being
• Subjects: Poverty; Children and youth; Development and Refugees (see also Sociology)