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What matters most in how poverty shapes children'swellbeing and development? How can data inform social policy and practiceapproaches to improving the outcomes for poorer children? Using life course analysis from the Young Lives study of12,000 children growing up in Ethiopia, India, Peru and Vietnam over the past15 years, this book draws on evidence on two cohorts of children, from 1 to 15and from 8 to 22. It examines how poverty affects children's development in lowand middle-income countries, and how policy has been used to improve theirlives, then goes on to show when key developmental differences occur. It usesnew evidence to develop a framework of what matters most and when and outlineseffective policy approaches to inform the no-one left behind SustainableDevelopment Goal agenda.

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"""This book presents rich comparative and longitudinal evidence about young lives in the global south. I would recommend to researchers in international childhood and youth studies, international development and education, and to policy-makers and practitioners in government and non-government settings."" Vicky Johnson, Goldsmiths, University of London"

This book presents rich comparative and longitudinal evidence about young lives in the global south. I would recommend to researchers in international childhood and youth studies, international development and education, and to policy-makers and practitioners in government and non-government settings. Vicky Johnson, Goldsmiths, University of London

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Jo Boyden is Professor of International Development/ Director of Young Lives, Oxford Department of International Development. She is an authority on child development and children's rights and has worked on research and policy with children, particularly child labour, education, children in conflict, as well as publishing on childhood resilience in the context of adversity, poverty, and socio-cultural development. Andrew Dawes is Associate Professor Emeritus in Psychology at the University of Cape Town and a Research Associate with Young Lives. His expertise includes the development indicators for measuring children's rights and well-being, prevention of child maltreatment and violence to young children, and evaluations of early childhood development programmes in African settings. He has extensive experience in translating research to policy. Dr Paul Dornan was Senior Policy Officer at Young Lives in the Oxford Department of International Development. He is a social policy analyst with expertise in social policy and child poverty and was responsible for leading policy activity within Young Lives. Colin Tredoux is Professor of Psychology, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Chaire d'Attractivit, CLLE, Universit de Toulouse, CNRS, UT2J, France. His interests in Social Psychology include contact theory, and the micro-ecology of contact and segregation. He has published widely in a range of journals, including American Psychologist, South African Journal of Psychology, and Psychological Science.

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