Understanding Children's Lives: Evidence for Breaking the Poverty Cycle

Young Lives seminar at the Department for International Development, London on 30 September 2008

Key members of the UK and international team of Young Lives researchers and policy staff will be at DFID to present the policy implications of their latest findings for the first time at a special lunchtime seminar on Tuesday 30 September 2008.

Presentations and discussion: 12.30 - 2.00pm

Persistent poverty and widening disparities: what are the implications for poverty reduction beyond the MDGs? Professor Jo Boyden, Director, Young Lives

Intergenerational transmission of poverty: tackling the 'hard to reach' MDGs Professor Stefan Dercon, University of Oxford

Confronting inequality? The cognitive skills gap in four countries Santiago Cueto, Policy Coordinator, Young Lives Peru

Ethiopia's work for food programme: the impact of child labour on education Tassew Woldehanna, Principal Investigator, Young Lives Ethiopia

Dialogue Groups: 2.00 - 3.00pm