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Title 'Even if she learns, she does not understand properly'. Children's understanding of illbeing and poverty in five Ethiopian communities
Full text http://www.younglives.org.uk/files/journal-articles/camfield-even-if-she-learns-she-doesnt-understand-properly-childrens-understanding-of-illbeing-and-poverty-in-five-ethiopian-communities-2010
Date 2010
Author(s) Camfield, Laura
Abstract The paper argues on the basis of data from Young Lives 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 resources required for full participation in society. The paper makes a number of methodological points of value to researchers undertaking similar studies: firstly, poverty can be explored by asking about illbeing; secondly, children's conceptions of poverty are profoundly social and context-specific; and thirdly, young children are just as able to address these themes as older ones. - Copyright Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2009. The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11205-009-9468-z
Subject(s) International and macro-economic development; Ethiopia; children's understanding of poverty; resilience; well-being
Language en
Relation http://www.younglives.org.uk/files/journal-articles/camfield-even-if-she-learns-she-doesnt-understand-properly-childrens-understanding-of-illbeing-and-poverty-in-five-ethiopian-communities-2010
Type of publication text; Article: post-print; Published; Peer reviewed; Updated Author's Original
Format Published; born digital
Rights This is the pre-publication version of an article submitted to Social Indicators Research. Published as: Camfield, Laura (2010) "'Even if she learns, she does not understand properly'. Children's understanding of illbeing and poverty in five Ethiopian communities", Social Indicators Research 96 (1): 85-112. The final publication is available at Springer via http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11205-009-9468-z The article is reproduced in accordance with the self-archiving policies of Springer Verlag.
Identifier uuid:6dd4b509-2035-48b2-8b22-8ed0466fae44; doi: 10.1007/s11205-009-9468-z; issn: 0303-8300; eissn: 1573-0921; Oxford Research Archive internal ID: ora:9861; ora:9861; urn:uuid:6dd4b509-2035-48b2-8b22-8ed0466fae44
Repository Oxford - Research Archive, University of Oxford
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