Innocenti’s publications contribute to global debate on issues related to children. Browse the catalogue for a listing of current and past titles.
Comparing Inequality in the Well-being of Children in Economically Advanced Countries: A methodology
This paper tries to respond to the complex challenge of going beyond a research approach into child well-being based on averages and proposes a complementary approach to compare inequalities across economically advanced countries. More specifically, the objective of this paper is to explore and compare the extent of disparity at the bottom-end of the distribution of child well-being, focusing on the gap between the child in the middle of the distribution and those who are disadvantaged, i.e. those at the bottom of the distribution.
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Protecting Vulnerable Families in Central Asia: Poverty, vulnerability and the impact of the economic crisis
This paper provides an overview of the social and economic vulnerabilities of households with children in the five Central Asian countries (Kazakhstan, Kyrgyz Republic, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan), and assesses the ability of national social protection systems to address these, with the main focus on the role of non-contributory cash transfers financed from general government revenues.
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Защита уязвимых семей в Центральной Азии: бедность, уязвимость и воздействие экономического кризиса
С конца 2007 года страны Центральной Азии перенесли два мощных потрясения, следовавших одно за другим: рост цен на продукты питания и топливо в 2007–2008 годах и мировой экономический и финансовый кризис, начавшийся в конце 2008 года. Кризис оказал непосредственное неблагоприятное воздействие на домохозяйства – как бедные, так и состоятельные. Многоаспектность кризиса и постоянно меняющаяся экономическая ситуация ставят под угрозу способность уязвимых домохозяйств справляться с ситуацией и поддерживать свой уровень жизни. Важную роль в реагировании на кризис играют программы социальной защиты.
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The Impact of the Food and Financial Crises on Child Mortality: The case of sub-Saharan Africa
This study presents an econometric model to estimate changes in the under-five mortality rate in a number of countries in sub-Saharan Africa over the years 1995-2007. The discussion centres on models with different specifications, and on the results obtained after testing several of them. The paper argues that initial models adopted to forecast the potential impact of the food and financial crisis overestimated the increase in mortality. However, the more complex tool presented in this study proves that under-five mortality rates have indeed increased (or declined less than predicted) due to the food and financial crises. The estimates provide signposts for remedies to protect children and their families when new shocks arrive.
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Institutions, Inequality and Growth: A review of theory and evidence on the institutional determinants of growth and inequality
This study discusses the theoretical challenge posed in identifying the mechanisms that link institutions and equitable economic growth at various levels of aggregation. The relationship between governance modes and institutions on the one hand, and economic growth and development on the other hand, may take very different forms. This relates to the question of whether a single and unique combination of institutions and governance modes is optimal for (equitable) growth, or whether different governance modes and institutions may lead to good or equitable growth performance in different locations and historical contexts.
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Monitoring Child Well-being in the European Union: Measuring cumulative deprivation
The European Union (EU) is currently in the process of developing child specific indicators of well-being that will be used to monitor progress towards achieving inclusive economic growth. Although a wide range of child sensitive indicators has been proposed in recent years, none of the measures is sensitive to (changes in) cumulative deprivation i.e. the degree to which a child simultaneously experiences a range of unfavourable conditions. Children’s current well-being is a key determinant of their future situation; more often than not, well-being in one domain (e.g. health) is complementary to well-being in another domain (e.g. education); and children also have little control over, or responsibility for, the factors determining their own well-being.
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The Breadth of Child Poverty in Europe: An investigation into overlap and accumulation of deprivations
Recent years have witnessed widespread acknowledgement in both academic and policy circles that children deserve a special focus in poverty measurement The case for a child focus in poverty and development debates can be made on moral, rights and efficiency based grounds. It is now widely recognized that children have different basic needs from adults and are harder hit, both in the short- and long-term, when their basic needs are not met.
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The Dynamics of Social Change: Towards the abandonment of FGM/C in five African countries (Arabic version)
يشكل ختان الإناث انتهاكاً لحقوق الإنسان الخاصة بالنساء والفتيات. وحتى إذا لم يكن العنف هو القصد منه فهو يشكل حتما ممارسة عنيفة، ناهيك عن كونه مظهراً من مظاهر التفاوت المتجذر في المساواة بين الجنسين وكونه تمييزياً بطبيعته. إن جذور هذه الممارسة ضاربة في الفهم الثقافي لنوع الجنس والحياة الجنسية والزواج والأسرة ويؤثر ذلك الفهم في كيفية النظر إلى الختان وتقبله في السياقات المختلفة. وعلى الرغم من التفاوت عبر البلدان الخمسة الخاضعة للتحليل وداخل حدود البلد الواحد، تؤكد التجارب أن ختان الإناث في المجتمعات التي تمارسه يعتبر خطوة ضرورية لتعزيز منزلة الفتاة وحمايتها، وفي أحيان كثيرة لجعلها أكثر أهلية للزواج. يؤدي ختان الإناث دور الميثاق الاجتماعي والقاعدة الاجتماعية وهو يرتكز على توقعات متبادلة داخل تلك المجتمعات.
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Law Reform and the Implementation of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (Arabic)
The study reviews the legislation concerning the rights of children adopted by 52 States Parties since the adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. With the goal of providing an overview of the scope and content of new legislation adopted since 1989, the report covers 18 of the general principles and rights contained in the Convention. Three subjects that deserve further investigation are identified: the process of law reform, its place as part of a broad child rights strategy, and the actual impact of legislation of this kind on children.
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Le dinamiche del cambiamento sociale: verso l'abbandono dell'escissione/mutilazione dei genitali femminili in cinque paesi africani
Questa pubblicazione esamina le dinamiche sociali dell’abbandono dell’escissione/mutilazione genitale femminile (E/MGF) in cinque paesi - Egitto, Etiopia, Kenya, Senegal e Sudan - e si propone di fornire informazioni utili alla formulazione di politiche e programmi mirati all’abbandono di questa pratica, sia nelle nazioni in cui rappresenta una tradizione locale che tra le comunità di espatriati nei paesi di immigrazione.
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