Globalising initiatives for gender equality and poverty reduction
Exploring ‘failure’ with reference to education and work among urban youth in The Gambia and Ghana
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 8941857 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G A Jones (0000-0001-9844-4547, London School of Economics and Political Science, corresponding author), Sylvia Chant (London School of Economics and Political Science) |
| Year | 2008 |
| Volume | 40 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 184-196 |
| Publication date | 2008-09-24 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Geoforum (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0016-7185 • E-ISSN: 1872-9398 |
| Publisher | Elsevier BV (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1016/j.geoforum.2008.07.008 |
| OpenAlex | W2000731883 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 47 |
| References cited | 31 |
Agency (philosophy · Economic growth · Economics · Inequality · Millennium Development Goals · Political science · Poverty · Social science · Sociology · Work (physics · Gender, Labor, and Family Dynamics · Migration and Labor Dynamics · Poverty, Education, and Child Welfare
Do gender empowerment and democracy reduce poverty rate? A cross-provinces evidence from western Indonesia
Against the Odds
Working Childhoods
Unrealized Educational Expectations and Mental Health
A 'Seasonal Stew' -- Food for Thought; Fuel for Action
Ghanaian BSW Students' Perceptions of Poverty and Social Welfare Policies in Ghana
‘When we launched the government's agenda…’
Parental evidence of impact of policy on worst forms of child labour in rural and urban Ghana
Boys Meet Girls’ Rights
What did urban studies do for women? A systematic review of 40 years of research
Socio-economic constraints in re-entering the labour market during Covid-19 and the resilience of female informal workers living in urban informal settlements
Unfreedom Papers
Gendered and generational tensions in increased land commercialisation
Geographic perspectives on development goals
Lost futures? Educated youth precarity and protests in the Oromia region, Ethiopia
Rural youth and urban-based vocational training
Mobility, education and livelihood trajectories for young people in rural Ghana
The politics of aspiration
Children and development III
Youth transitions and migration
Troubling transitions? Young people's experiences of growing up in poverty in rural Andhra Pradesh, India
Gender and poverty
Macroeconomic Fundamentals of Poverty and Deprivation
Cities through a “gender lens”
Looking for the one(s)
The Effects of Limited Work Opportunities on Transitions to Adulthood among Young Refugees in Uganda and Jordan
Geographies of children and youth I
Age inequality
When Assets are Vulnerabilities
Intergenerational Housing Support Between Retired Old Parents and their Children in Urban China
Gender Stereotypes and the Role of Women in Higher Education (Azerbaijan Case Study)
Boys are tired! Youth, urban struggles, and retaliatory patriarchy
Geographies of education and learning
Unsettling geographies of volunteering and development
Experiencing agricultural failure
Escape to victory
Rethinking education as a contradictory resource
Transitions to adulthood among young entrepreneurs in the informal mobile telephony sector in Accra, Ghana
Struggles over family land? Tree crops, land and labour in Ghana’s Brong-Ahafo region
Identity, subjectivity and natural resource use
Women's transnational migration through football
Transitions to Adulthood in Developing Countries
Fresh contact
Towards a sustainable NGO intervention on child protection
Brazil's Bolsa Família Programme
Shaping Geographies of Informal Education
Negotiating intergenerational relationships and social expectations in childhood in rural and urban Ethiopia
The Convention on the Rights of the Child
Gender in Latin America
Economic and Cultural Forces in the Child Labour Debate
Youth, gender and livelihoods in West Africa
NGOs and poverty reduction in a globalizing world
Children and development
Endangered Youth? Youth, gender and sexualities in urban Botswana
The Effect of Child Labor on Learning Achievement
Enduring Poverty and the Conditions of Childhood
NGOs and Innovation
The Rise and Fall of the Washington Consensus as a Paradigm for Developing Countries
Paradox of Empowerment
Deteriorating Economic Context and Changing Patterns of Youth Employment in Urban Burkina Faso
Secondary Education Reform in Lesotho and Zimbabwe and the Needs of Rural Girls
Literacy, Gender and Vulnerability
Human Development Report 2007/2008 Fighting Climate Change
Getting Stuck in the Compound
When schooling fails
Education for All
Family, Population and Development in Africa
The Policy Analysis of Child Labor
Mothering, Work, and Gender in Urban Asante Ideology and Practice
Deprivation
| Unique citing works | 47 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 2,76 |
| Citation span | 2009 - 2025 (17) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 47 |