CHIP Report 9: Improving child wellbeing in developing countries. What do we know? What can be done?
Abstract
This paper examines the successes of ten 'high-achievers' - countries with social indicators far higher than might be expected, given their national wealth - pulling together the lessons learned for social policy in the developing world. Some of them have immense populations, others small. Most are market economies, but one is not. 皇冠体育appir cultures, languages and histories are varied. 皇冠体育appy have little in common, except in one crucial respect: they have all managed to exceed the pace and scope of health and education development in the majority of other developing countries. 皇冠体育appir children go to school and their child mortality rates have plummeted. 皇冠体育app paper shows how, in the space of fifty years, these countries have made advances in health and education.
Citation
Mehrotra, S. (2004) CHIP Report 9: Improving child wellbeing in developing countries. What do we know? What can be done? Childhood Poverty Research and Policy Centre (CHIP), London, UK, iii + 50 pp.
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