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Children and Adolescents in Times of Crises in Europe pp 143–155Cite as

Global Social Policy on Children in the Global Economic Crisis

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The chapter by Alexandra Kaasch deals with the question of the way in which attention is given to the social situation and needs of children in the context of the global economic crisis. It asks about the key actors (i.e. international organisations) that engage with the needs and rights of children. This includes the United Nations International Children’s Emergency Fund (UNICEF), the World Bank, the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD). The organisations are compared as to the different ways and degrees of the role children are given in global social policy discourses in the context of the global economic crisis.

Women and children are likely to bear the brunt of the crisis and carry the greatest burden of household adjustments over the short and long term.

UNICEF (2009)

We care for children not because it is “good economics” (although it is!), but because it is the right thing to do.

Voipio (2012)

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    http://www.ilo.org/secsoc/areas-of-work/policy-development-and-applied-research/social-protection-floor/lang%2D%2Den/index.htm, accessed 26 July 2018

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    https://data.unicef.org/children-sustainable-development-goals/, accessed 4 May 2018.

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Kaasch, A. (2019). Global Social Policy on Children in the Global Economic Crisis. In: Grimm, M., Ertugrul, B., Bauer, U. (eds) Children and Adolescents in Times of Crises in Europe. Children’s Well-Being: Indicators and Research, vol 20. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-16331-0_9

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