Questioning the power of resilience : are children up to the task of disrupting the transmission of poverty?

BOYDEN, Jo
COOPER, Elizabeth

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April 2007
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This paper reviews the development and application of the concept of resilience and assesses how useful the term is to poverty researchers and practitioners, when applied to childhood poverty, poverty over the life course and the intergenerational transmission of poverty

Document No:CPRC Working Paper 73 Meeting:CPRC Workshop on Concepts and Methods for Analysing Poverty Dynamics and Chronic Poverty23 - 25 October 2006University of Manchester 

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