Author Description

Presents findings based on research carried out between 2007 and 2008 with a group of boys and girls in Andhra Pradesh who participate in Young Lives, a long-term study (2000-2015) of child poverty in Ethiopia, India (Andhra Pradesh), Peru and Vietnam. Investigates children's experiences of change within the context of programmes and services in their communities, including rising food prices and other effects of the broader economic crisis. Children identify both negative and positive changes in their households and communities. They describe how the financial crisis impacted on their time-use, for example, by affecting the way they balanced school and work, as well as how they experienced the various programmes aimed at protecting them and their households. Children not only provide critical commentary on how economic and political changes impacted on their lives, they also discuss how children and their families cope with change (for example by eating less or working more) and what communities and governments should do to protect different groups of children better in these contexts.