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McKechnie, Jim; Hobbs, Sandy; Lindsay, Sandra; Lynch, Margaret – Children & Society, 1998
Recent evidence has emerged that in Britain, like the United States, many children below minimum school-leaving age are working. Often, the work is illegal. Research in the United States suggests that many risk accidents and other hazards to health. Evidence from Britain is of a more fragmentary nature, but enough exists to suggest a need for…
Descriptors: Child Health, Child Labor, Child Safety, Employment Problems
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Harpham, Trudy; Huong, Nguyen Thu; Long, Tran Thap; Tuan, Tran – Children & Society, 2005
There are increasing calls for more child specific measures of poverty in developing countries and the need for such measures to be multi-dimensional (that is not just based on income) has been recognised. Participatory Poverty Assessments (PPAs) are now common in international development research. Most PPAs have been undertaken with adults and…
Descriptors: Poverty, Economically Disadvantaged, Foreign Countries, Developing Nations