Highlights
Empirical Analysis using Household and Micro-level Datasets
Formal empirical analysis of the social impact of crises, policy adjustments and other economic events is typically underpinned by an ex- post analysis using nationally representative household survey data.
Social Budget Tracking and Analysis
Social budget tracking and analysis tools monitor the extent of priority and protection given to public budget items and can influence government policies in favour of allocations to children and families.
A Child Rights Lens for Poverty and Social Impact Analyses (PSIAs)
Poverty and Social Impact Analyses, PSIAs, are aimed at facilitating an ex-ante understanding of the potential distributional impacts of a given policy reform. Child rights centered PSIAs, add a child focus to these impact assessments, as tools specifically designed to promote more child sensitive real-time policy making.
Innovative Desk Reviews of the Impact of Crises on Children and Policy Responses
In developing policy advocacy strategies and in selecting the best analytical tools for policy engagement, it is critical to effectively draw on the best available evidence base. In this respect, through the use of desk reviews, policymakers and child rights advocates can readily access a wealth of evidence and information from the existing policy and empirical literature related to past crises and policy responses.
Below are some of the key desk reviews that analyse the impact of crises on children and the associated policy responses:
- Global Inequality: Beyond the Bottom Billion-A Rapid Review of Income Distribution in 141 Countries (2011)
- Recovery for All (2010-2011)
- Crises and Inequality: Lessons from the Global Food, Fuel, Financial and Economic Crises of 2008-10 (2011)
- Two Years into the Crisis: Signs of Severe Coping Strategies that are Impacting on Children (2010)
- Including Children in Policy Responses to Economic Crises (2010)
- The Case of Mexico's 1995 Peso Crisis and Argentina's 2002 Convertibility Crisis (2010)
- Assessing the Impacts of and Response to the 1997-98 Asian Financial Crisis Through a Child Rights Lens (2010)
- Inclusive Crises, Exclusive Recoveries and Policies to Prevent a Double Whammy for the Poor (2010)
- The Perfect Storm: The Impact of Climate Change and the Economic Crisis on Children and Adolescents in Guatemala (2010)
- Economic Crisis and Children: An Overview for East Asia and the Pacific (2009)
- Human Development in Crisis: Insights from the Literature, Emerging Accounts from the Field and the Correlates of Growth Accelerations and Decelerations (2009)
- Infant Mortality During Crises and Recovery (2009)
- A Matter of Magnitude: The Impact of the Economic Crisis on Women and Children in South Asia (2009)
- Economic Shocks and Vulnerable in Thailand: A Case Study of Rising Food and Fuel Prices (2009)
- How Economic Shocks Affect Poor Households and Children (2009)
- Aggregate Shocks, Poor Households and Children: Transmission Channels and Policy Responses (2009)
