Convention on the Rights of the Child

UNICEF’s Convention on the Rights of the Child, approved on November 20, 1989

A Decade of Transition

The MONEE project Regional Monitoring Report of the UNICEF Innocenti Research Centre is a unique source of information on the social side of the transition taking place in the 27 countries of Central and Eastern Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. Each year’s Report contains an update on the social and economic changes affecting people in the region and includes a wealth of data in a detailed Statistical Annex. The present Report provides a review of the first 10 years of transition, exploiting the fact that data are now available on many issues that cover the entire 1990s. The core chapters examine the record of the decade in four key areas affecting human welfare: income inequality and child poverty, health, education, and child protection. An introductory chapter analyses key economic and demographic trends. In each case, the Report summarizes developments to the end of the decade, discussing both the outcomes measured with statistical data and the policy options.economic monitoring; economic transition; educational policy; health; juvenile justice;Baltic States; Central Europe; Eastern Europe; Russia;

Institutions, Inequality and Growth: A review of theory and evidence on the institutional determinants of growth and inequality

The difference in the development experiences between the most developed countries and the least developed countries of today is vast. Luxembourg’s per capita income is 200 times larger than Liberia’s. Even within the developing world, growth is very unequal. East Asia and parts of Latin America are growing at impressive rates, while many other countries - especially in Sub-Saharan Africa - struggle with sluggish and volatile growth. This study discusses the theoretical challenge posed in identifying the mechanisms that link institutions and equitable economic growth at various levels of aggregation. The relationship between governance modes and institutions on the one hand, and economic growth and development on the other hand, may take very different forms. This relates to the question of whether a single and unique combination of institutions and governance modes is optimal for (equitable) growth, or whether different governance modes and institutions may lead to good or equitable growth performance in different locations and historical contexts.development administration; growth policy; institutional framework;

Monitoring Child Well-being in the European Union: Measuring cumulative deprivation

This paper describes and empirically tests a number of candidate measures of cumulative deprivation to monitor child well-being in the EU.The authors posit that the ideal measure should be sensitive to changes in the depth of cumulative deprivation and, given its broad use in the policy community, has an intuitive interpretation. Using the 2007 wave of the EU-SILC data, the authors constructed several measures of cumulative deprivation from a set of 13 deprivation indicators for Germany, France, the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.child poverty; poverty reduction;

Domestic Abuse and Assault GA

In collaboration with UNICEF, BELLAs is hosting a GA on domestic sexual abuse, intimate partner violence, and their effects on families, children, and individuals. The GA will also cover common misconceptions regarding domestic abuse, ways to prevent sexual violence, and signs of assault.https://digitalcommons.imsa.edu/saaw/1002/thumbnail.jp