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.
Assessing the Impacts of and Response to the 1997-98 Asian Financial Crisis Through a Child Rights Lens
The 'miracle' of East Asia and economic growth was brought to a standstill when the Asian financial crisis hit in 1997, unleashing a range of economic, political and social consequences across the region and exposing this transformation as fragile and unstable. This working paper examines the macro-micro impacts of the 1990s crisis in order to assess the impact pathways through which macroeconomic shocks affected children, youth and caregivers, and the extent to which different packages of economic and social policy responses mitigated the negative impacts on child well-being. If focuses on four countries most affected by the crisis: Indonesia, South Korea, Malaysia and Thailand.
Documents
- Assessing the Impacts of and Response to the 1997-98 Asian Financial Crisis Through a Child Rights Lens (2010)
Authors: Jones, N., and H. Marsden
Social and Economic Policy Working Paper No.2010-12, UNICEF Department of Policy and Practice, New York
