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Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780415617208
Year: 2016
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Pages: 508
Description:
Landmark book because it brings together for the first time the stock of knowledge and approaches to understanding young people’s lives in the context of development and globalization in neglected regions of the world.
Brings into question conventional views of children and youth as recipients of development interventions, the book seeks to remedy young people’s invisibility in development debates.
Substantive chapters set across the wider backdrop of interconnected global processes of development, cover key policy areas of health, education, work, violence and neglect as well as cross cutting issues of children, youth rights and participation.
Synthesises research from different social science disciplines in such a way that it adds fresh insights for use by researchers, teachers and students.
Wide range of examples and case studies from across the Global South combined with figures, graphs and photographs help to contextualise the subject matter enabling students to understand how broader processes affect children in particular countries
Key changes to the new edition:
Content reflects changes in the international development context since the last edition was published: the impact of the international financial crisis on the lives of children and young people.
Includes material on the changes in the approaches of aid donors to development and the types of policy that ensue e.g. move away from use of structural adjustment programmes and the channeling of aid through
Condition: BRAND NEW
ISBN: 9780415617208
Year: 2016
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Pages: 508
Description:
Landmark book because it brings together for the first time the stock of knowledge and approaches to understanding young people’s lives in the context of development and globalization in neglected regions of the world.
Brings into question conventional views of children and youth as recipients of development interventions, the book seeks to remedy young people’s invisibility in development debates.
Substantive chapters set across the wider backdrop of interconnected global processes of development, cover key policy areas of health, education, work, violence and neglect as well as cross cutting issues of children, youth rights and participation.
Synthesises research from different social science disciplines in such a way that it adds fresh insights for use by researchers, teachers and students.
Wide range of examples and case studies from across the Global South combined with figures, graphs and photographs help to contextualise the subject matter enabling students to understand how broader processes affect children in particular countries
Key changes to the new edition:
Content reflects changes in the international development context since the last edition was published: the impact of the international financial crisis on the lives of children and young people.
Includes material on the changes in the approaches of aid donors to development and the types of policy that ensue e.g. move away from use of structural adjustment programmes and the channeling of aid through