Putting Children First : New Frontiers in the Fight Against Child Poverty in Africa / / Keetie Roelen, Richard Morgan, Yisak Tafere, Elizabeth Ngutuku, Winnie C Sambu, Katharine Hall, Somefun Dolapo Oluwaseyi, Akinyemi Joshua Odunayo, Odimegwu Clifford, Tassew Woldehanna, Yisak Tafere, Stephen Devereux, Julian May, Coretta Jonah, Nicola Hypher, Luke Harman, Kerina Zvobgo, Oluwatosin Akomolafe, Billow Hassan, Stephen Mutiso, Munshi Sulaiman, Nikhit D’Sa, Sarah Press, Anna Du Vent, Ahmed Farahat, Gina Porter, Kate Hampshire, Alister Munthali, Elsbeth Robson, Sita Conklin, Nicola Jones, Umutoni Marie Francoise, Bekele Tefera, Ernestina Coast, Workneh Yadete, Guday Emirie, Kassahun Tilahun, Isimbi Roberte, Marlene Ogawa, Shirley Pendlebury, Carmel Marock

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910965390803321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Hannover, : ibidem, 2019
• ISBN: 9783838273174; 3838273176
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (357 pages)
• Collana: CROP International Poverty Studies ; 7
• Disciplina: 339.46096
• Soggetti: Africa; Child Poverty; political economy; Afrika; Kinderarmut; Entwicklung
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Sommario/riassunto: Despite important strides in the fight against poverty in the past two decades, child poverty remains widespread and persistent, particularly in Africa. Poverty in all its dimensions is detrimental for early childhood development and leads to often unreversed damage for the lives of girls and boys, locking children and families into intergenerational poverty. This edited volume contributes to the policy initiatives aiming ; to reduce child poverty and academic understanding of child poverty and its solutions by bringing together applied research from across the continent. With the Sustainable Development Goals having opened up an important space for the fight against child poverty, not least by broadening its conceptualization to be multidimensional, this collection aims to push the frontiers by challenging existing narratives around child poverty, exploring alternative understandings of the complexities and dynamics underpinning child poverty and, crucially, examining policy options that work to reduce child poverty.