Social and Economic Policy
The Global Economic Crisis – Including Children in the Policy Response
UNICEF and ODI are pleased to announce the upcoming conference The global economic crisis – integrating children in the policy response. It will take place November 9-10, 2009 in London, UK. The invitation-only conference will convene development practitioners, policy experts and academic researchers from around the world to examine the ways in which the food and fuel price volatility, financial market volatility and global economic slowdown are affecting children and youth in both developing and developed countries and recommend policy responses.
Submitted papers will draw upon original research, evidence from past crises or first-hand policy-making experience to advance the discussion of how best to ensure children's access to services during and after the crisis. For more information about the conference, please contact us at globapolicy@unicef.org.
Please visit our conference website for logistical details about the event, e-proceedings, and active discussion.
Conference Papers
Panel 1: Lessons learned in past crises and expectations for the current crisis
- Opening presentation from Sanjeev Gupta
- Quantifying the impact of past financial crises on the health of children and households
- Impact of economic crisis on the well-being of children
- The impact of the global economic crises on the socio-economic conditions of vulnerable groups in deprived societies
Panel 2: From potential threat to current realities: emerging impacts on children of the current crisis
- The Global Economic Crisis, public budgets and child-sensitive social protection in Sub-Saharan Africa
- Survival in Mexico: Remittances and access to private healthcare among children and women left behind
- Consequences of the financial crisis with respect to children in Egypt
- Food price hikes and household food security in agrarian societies: Assessing children’s vulnerability in Bangladesh and Ethiopia
Panel 3: Childhood and vulnerability: Compounding risk during crises
- Impact of the economic crises on early childhood: An examination of mediating pathways with implications for national policy
- Global economic crisis: The challenges of girl-child education and alternative jobs in Nigeria
- Children’s perspectives on risk and vulnerability in contexts of poverty and change
- Crisis impacts on children vulnerable to HIV/AIDS
Panel 4: Including children in policy responses: Past lessons and future scenarios
- Social protection responses to economic crises and their impacts on children: Learning from past lessons
- Towards understanding the impact of the international financial crisis on child poverty in South Africa: A micro-macro simulation perspective
- Simulating the impact of the global food, fuel and financial crises on children and policy responses in Burkina Faso
- Appraising the impacts of the 2008/9 global economic crisis and of policy responses on children in Cameroon
Panel 5: Snapshots of responses in progress
- Child-sensitive social protection at times of crisis: Addressing the social impacts of the global economic crisis in CEE/CIS
- Adolescents, crisis and risk: Are CCTs adequate policy answers?
- The impact of the financial and economic crisis on the family and child in the Republic of Moldova and suggested responses
- The impact of the global food, fuel and financial crises and policy responses: A child-sensitive approach
Concluding remarks and presentation
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