Children's Chances
How Countries Can Move from Surviving to Thriving
1st Edition
Published on 14. May 2014
376 pages
978-0-674-06797-4 (ISBN)
Description
Children's Chances urges a shift from focusing on survival to targeting children's full and healthy development. Drawing on comparative data on policies in 190 countries designed to combat poverty, discrimination, child labor, illiteracy, and child marriage, Heymann and McNeill tell what works to ensure equal opportunities for all children.
Children's Chances urges a shift from focusing on survival to targeting children's full and healthy development. Drawing on comparative data on policies in 190 countries designed to combat poverty, discrimination, child labor, illiteracy, and child marriage, Heymann and McNeill tell what works to ensure equal opportunities for all children.
Children's Chances urges a shift from focusing on survival to targeting children's full and healthy development. Drawing on comparative data on policies in 190 countries designed to combat poverty, discrimination, child labor, illiteracy, and child marriage, Heymann and McNeill tell what works to ensure equal opportunities for all children.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Cambridge, Mass. [u.a.]
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
US School Grade: College Graduate Student
Illustrations
37 maps, 23 tables
37 maps, 23 tables
ISBN-13
978-0-674-06797-4 (9780674067974)
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Other editions
Additional editions
Book
02/2013
Harvard University Press
€79.46
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Persons
Jody Heymann is Founding Director of the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University.
Jody Heymann is Founding Director of the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University.
Jody Heymann is Founding Director of the Institute for Health and Social Policy at McGill University.
Content
- Intro
- Contents
- List of Maps and Tables
- Abbreviations
- 1. Within Our Reach
- 2. Beyond Basic Education
- 3. A Chance at Childhood
- 4. Beyond Survival to Health
- 5. Parents and Children
- 6. Meeting Basic Needs
- 7. Equity and Discrimination
- 8. Meeting Special Needs
- 9. Changing Children's Chances
- Appendix 1: The World Policy Analysis Centre
- Education Database
- Child Labour Database
- Child Marriage Database
- Adult Labour Database
- Constitutions Database
- Poverty Database
- Appendix 2: Interview Data
- Notes
- Acknowledgments
- Index
