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Participatory child poverty assessment in rural Vietnam
Author(s) -
Harpham Trudy,
Huong Nguyen Thu,
Long Tran Thap,
Tuan Tran
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
children and society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.538
H-Index - 58
eISSN - 1099-0860
pISSN - 0951-0605
DOI - 10.1002/chi.825
Subject(s) - poverty , citizen journalism , basic needs , developing country , child poverty , variety (cybernetics) , clothing , work (physics) , participatory action research , photovoice , economic growth , socioeconomics , psychology , environmental health , medicine , sociology , political science , economics , mechanical engineering , engineering , artificial intelligence , computer science , law
There are increasing calls for more child specific measures of poverty in developing countries and the need for such measures to be multi‐dimensional (that is not just based on income) has been recognised. Participatory Poverty Assessments (PPAs) are now common in international development research. Most PPAs have been undertaken with adults and there are still relatively few PPAs with children. The objective of the current study was to understand adults' and children's perceptions of the causes and consequences of child poverty in rural Vietnam using a variety of participatory methods. Poor children are perceived by poor children as those who lack basic needs such as food, clothes, and safe shelter. Poor children feel they do not receive enough attention from their parents, have to work and have no safe place to play.