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.

Recovery for All

This section presents a number of research studies that have been conducted in 2010-2011 by UNICEF and its partners, focusing on recovery policies for all and with a human face.

In light of the danger that unabated increases in food prices pose to the right to food, the MDGs and social cohesion, the first paper found below, presents a rapid desk review of national policy responses in the large part of developing countries, to draw insights on what is needed to tackle the renewed food price threat by prioritizing a recovery inclusive of all vulnerable groups. The other documents focus more on trends in public expenditure in the aftermath of the crisis, as well as the concept and practice of a recovery with a human face, making a reference to the need learn from past recovery experiences after the 1980s debt crisis.

Documents

Escalating Food Prices: The Threat to Poor Households and Policies to Safeguard a Recovery for All (2011)
Authors: Ortiz, I., Chai, J., and M. Cummins
Social and Economic Policy Working Paper No. 2011-02, UNICEF Department of Policy and Practice, New York
Prioritizing Expenditures for a Recovery for All: A Rapid Review of Public Expenditures in 126 Developing Countries (2010)
Authors: Ortiz, I., Chai, J., Cummins, M., and G. Vergara
Social and Economic Policy Working Paper No. 2010-10, UNICEF Department of Policy and Practice, New York
Recovery With a Human Face? A Note (2010)
Authors: Stewart F., Jolly, R., and A. Cornia
Dataset-Prioritizing Expenditures for a Recovery for All: A Rapid Review of Public Expenditures in 126 Developing Countries (2010)
Compressed Excel File
Recovery With a Human Face (2010)
Authors: Ortiz, I.
Power Point Presentation prepared for the Fordham University-UNICEF Forum on 'Child Friendly Budgets for 2010 and Beyond: Toward Global Economic Recovery with a Human Face', 18 February 2010, New York
A Recovery for All: A Call for Collaborative Action (2010)
Authors: Ortiz, I., Chai, J., and M. Cummins
Social and Economic Policy Concept Note, July 2010, UNICEF Department of Policy and Practice
A Recovery for All: Current Public Expenditure Contraction and Implications for Children (2010)
Authors: Ortiz, I., Chai, J., and M. Cummins
Power Point Presentation, New York 1 December 2010