Putting Children at the Centre of Poverty Debates

Reducing poverty and improving equity
Sep 28, 2011 | Young Lives

This policy brief by Young Lives focuses on children and their experiences of poverty.
It considers household and community circumstances as central to child well-being, and argues that the impacts of poverty also need to be assessed in terms of risks to children, such as environmental hazards or ill-health that are exacerbated by material lack.
http://www.younglives.org.uk/files/policy-papers/putting-children-at-the-centre-of-poverty-debates

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