This book analyses the living standards of the nearly 80 million
children in the EU who represent over a fifth of the Union's total
population. It aims to raise the profile of children in the debated
on Europe's future, and in doing so to...
UNICEF's MONEE Project in Central and Eastern Europe and the
former Soviet Union
INNOCENTI WORKING PAPER 72
The market-oriented transition in Eastern Europe and in the
countries of the former Soviet Union has led to increased efforts
to review...
INNOCENTI WORKING PAPER 73
Putting data on children into the macroeconomic debate can be
achieved in a variety of ways that this paper briefly outlines.
Economic policy is about improving the lives of people and the
most basic data of all...
INNOCENTI WORKING PAPER 74
Evidence is considered on differences in access to education and
in learning achievement within the countries of Central and
Eastern Europe and the former Soviet Union. The situation
inherited from the communist period...
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There is a shortfall of up to $80 billion per year between what is
spent and what should be spent to ensure universal access to
basic services such as primary health care, basic education and
clean water...
INNOCENTI WORKING PAPER 75
The accession of up to 13 new members in the next decade is the
most important development now facing the European Union.
This paper analyses measurable differences in the well-being of
children between current club...
Innocenti Lecture 2
This paper analyses, in the light of the Convention, eight areas
for progressive reform: universal access, equal opportunities, the
appropriate content of education, cultural roots and global
values, new methods of learning,...
This first report by the MONEE Project on the CEE/CIS countries in
transition is now available again to complete the series. It
provides a vital introduction to the evolving situation in Eastern
European countries. The aim, then and now, of the...
The league tables of child poverty presented in this first Innocenti
Report Card are the most comprehensive estimates so far of child
poverty across the industrialised world. Despite a doubling and
redoubling of national incomes in most of the 23...
INNOCENTI WORKING PAPER 76
Children are at the heart of Central Asian Culture. Two out of
every five inhabitants of the region are aged under 18. Yet
relatively little has been written about the impact of recent
political and economical and...
