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Camfield, Laura 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0165-9857
(2010)
'Stew without bread or bread without stew': Children’s understandings of poverty in Ethiopia.
Children & Society (Special Issue: Children, Poverty and Risk: Global Perspectives), 24 (4).
pp. 271-281.
Abstract
This paper explores children’s understandings of poverty, ill-being and well-being in Ethiopia using data collected through group exercises with children aged 5–6 and 11–13 participating in Young Lives, an international study of childhood poverty. In some respects the characteristics of poverty reported by children resemble those reported by adults participating in similar exercises. However, the children’s addition of appearance and clothing, and their explanations of the reasoning behind the importance of these indicators of well-being reflect growing inequalities in Ethiopia, where experiences of relative poverty and social exclusion are increasingly common. This evidence argues for broadening the focus of child poverty reduction to include the psychosocial costs of lacking the culturally specific resources required for full participation in society. The paper also illustrates ways in which poverty can be explored by asking about ill-being and that children as young as five years are able to address these themes through well-designed research methods.
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Social Sciences > School of Global Development (formerly School of International Development) |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Life Course, Migration and Wellbeing Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Impact Evaluation Faculty of Social Sciences > Research Groups > Gender and Development University of East Anglia Schools > Faculty of Science > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research |
| Depositing User: | Abigail Dalgleish |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jan 2011 10:41 |
| Last Modified: | 03 May 2024 00:10 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/18613 |
| DOI: | 10.1111/j.1099-0860.2010.00311.x |
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