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7%OFFJody Heymann - Children´s Chances: How Countries Can Move from Surviving to Thriving - 9780674066816 - V9780674066816
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Children´s Chances: How Countries Can Move from Surviving to Thriving

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Description for Children´s Chances: How Countries Can Move from Surviving to Thriving Hardback. Children's Chances urges a shift from focusing on survival to targeting children's full and healthy development. Drawing on comparative data on policies in 190 countries designed to combat poverty, discrimination, child labor, illiteracy, and child marriage, Heymann and McNeill tell what works to ensure equal opportunities for all children. Num Pages: 408 pages, 37 maps, 23 tables. BIC Classification: JFSP1; JKSB1; JPQB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 237 x 163 x 31. Weight in Grams: 776.

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 ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Number of pages
408
Condition
New
Number of Pages
408
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674066816
SKU
V9780674066816
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-26

About Jody Heymann
Jody Heymann is Dean of the Jonathan and Karin Fielding School of Public Health at the University of California, Los Angeles.

Reviews for Children´s Chances: How Countries Can Move from Surviving to Thriving
With its amazing synthesis of evidence, Children's Chances maps out what countries are now doing—and what more they can do—to address problems in the lives of children around the world. This book is a valuable resource, not just for agencies like Save the Children, but for individual citizens who champion all children's opportunities to develop to their fullest potential.
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