"Even if she learns, she doesn't understand properly". Children's understandings of illbeing and poverty in five Ethiopian communities

Social Indicators Research

Volumn 96, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 85-112

  Camfield, Laura ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Child indicators; Child poverty; Children; Ethiopia; Illbeing; Qualitative; Understandings of poverty

Indexed keywords

CHILD WELFARE; POVERTY ALLEVIATION; SOCIAL EXCLUSION; SOCIAL INDICATOR;

ETHIOPIA;

EID: 75749127314     PISSN: 03038300     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11205-009-9468-z     Document Type: Article

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