This preliminary report from the first round of Young Lives in 2002 has the following objectives: to briefly present what is known about child poverty in Ethiopia; to review policies expected to have an impact on child poverty; to identify key stakeholders for this study; to describe the methods used in the study; to present preliminary results from surveys of 2,000 households with 1-year-old children, and 1,000 households with 8-year-old children; and to present some provisional conclusions and policy implications.

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