Children's Chances How Countries Can Move from Surviving to Thriving

Name: Children's Chances How Countries Can Move from Surviving to Thriving
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ISBN: 9780674066816

ISBN-10: 0674066812

ISBN-13: 9780674066816

Edition: 2013

Authors: Jody Heymann, Kristen McNeill

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Most parents care deeply about their children. If that were enough, we would not see the inequalities we currently do in children’s opportunities and healthy development—children out of school, children laboring, children living in poverty. While the scale of the problems can seem overwhelming, history has shown that massive progress is possible on problems that once seemed unsolvable. Within the span of less than twenty-five years, the proportion of people living in extreme poverty has been cut in half, the number of children under age five that die each day has dropped by over 12,000, and the percentage of girls attending school has climbed from just three in four to over 90…

Book details

List price: $57.00
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Publication date: 2/13/2013
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 408
Size: 6.13" wide x 9.25" long x 1.30" tall
Weight: 1.716
Language: English

Jody Heymann is Dean of the Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health at UCLA.



List of Maps and Tables


Abbreviations



Within Our Reach



Beyond Basic Education



A Chance at Childhood



Beyond Survival to Health



Parents and Children



Meeting Basic Needs



Equity and Discrimination



Meeting Special Needs



Changing Children's Chances



The World Policy Analysis Centre


Education Database


Child Labour Database


Child Marriage Database


Adult Labour Database


Constitutions Database


Poverty Database



Interview Data


Notes


Acknowledgments


Index