What Will the Impact of the Current Global Economic Crisis on Childhood Poverty in East Asia

Type Working Paper
Title What Will the Impact of the Current Global Economic Crisis on Childhood Poverty in East Asia
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Publication (Day/Month/Year) 2009
URL http://ejournal.narotama.ac.id/files/Sumner_Crisis_article_-_East_Asia(1).pdf
Abstract
Estimates of the poverty impact of the current crisis are becoming numerous and varied. Few are specifically child-focused. Most are based on global estimates of poverty impacts making assumptions regarding GDP growth deceleration and the poverty elasticity of growth. This article reviews these but takes a different approach. The paper seeks to inform the current debates on poverty impacts by focusing on the 1997/8 economic crisis in East Asia, and Indonesia in particular. The paper asks what do we know about the childhood poverty impact of previous economic crises?

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