This chapter is about restrictions on the agency of young people, and especially of girls, in the context of poverty[u1] . It reports on survey and qualitative data from the Young Lives study inVietnam andAndhra Pradesh,India (see www.younglives.org.uk). The aim is to deepen understanding of girls? and boys? agency within differing contexts, and of how gender inequalities intertwine with other sources of disadvantage (such as poverty, household shocks, and location of residence) to shape choices and life chances. This chapter will argue that power and agency are multidimensional and deeply social, including the power and agency of children (Attree 2006; Redmond 2009; Jeffrey 2012). Grounding analysis in children?s narratives of everyday life, the chapter asks what ?agency? means for children who grow up in poverty, and whether there are different kinds of agency, particularly for short-term and long-term ends.

The final published version of the chapter is available on the publisher's website. 

Reference: 

Crivello, Gina, Vu Thi Thanh Huong and Uma Vennam (2014) ' Gender, Agency and Poverty: Children?s Everyday Experiences in Andhra Pradesh and Vietnam',  in  Michael Bourdillon and Jo Boyden (eds) Growing up in Poverty: Findings from Young Lives (pp. 95-114). Oxford: Palgrave Macmillan.