The South African Index of Multiple Deprivation for Children

Census 2001 The detrimental impact of poverty on child development, educational outcomes, job prospects, health, and behaviour is well known, and governments worldwide have committed themselves to eradicating child poverty as well as the intergenerational transmission of poverty. Yet more than 60% of South African children live in households with annual incomes below $1 360 (2006 value), and mortality and maltreatment rates remain high.

HSRC Press

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Format:

280mm x 210mm (Soft Cover)

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ISBN-13:

978-07969-2216-8

Publish Year:

2007

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World Rights

Helen Barnes is a research officer in Centre for the Analysis of South African Social Policy, which is part of the Department of Social Policy and Social Work (SDRC) at the University of Oxford.

Gemma Wright is a Senior Research Fellow at the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Oxford. She is Deputy Director of the Social Disadvantage Research Centre and Deputy Director of the Centre for the Analysis of South African Social Policy, both of which are research centres within the Department.

Michael Noble is Professor of Social Policy, Director of the Centre for Analysis of South African Social Policy and Director of the Social Disadvantage Research Centre at the University of Oxford.

Professor Andrew Dawes is a former Research Director in the Child, Youth, Family & Social Development research programme at the Human Sciences Research Council (HSRC). He is an Associate Professor Emeritus at the University of Cape Town, and is an Associate Fellow of the Department of Social Policy and Social Work at the University of Oxford.

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