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["rebecca holmes" <<address removed>>]

As is well known, and noted in previous discussions, vulnerability within 
the household affects members diversely; but on the one hand, the 
household?s ability to reduce vulnerability as a unit may actually increase 
an individual members? vulnerability.

Many children and adolescents work, as labourers or in the household, to 
bring in necessary household income or to let another member out to earn a 
wage. However, at what cost is their engagement with the market and/or 
domestic work sphere? Children?s labour can potentially increase their 
vulnerability as work prioritises over schooling and further vocational 
studies. It is important to look at the intergenerational ability of moving 
poor households out of poverty, and the potential for youth to access 
education, new technologies, resources etc.

There have been many examples of social protection policies benefiting 
children and youth, mostly through indirect transfers to them through 
education. Such examples include grandparents contributing to the cost of 
primary and secondary education (Devereux, S. 2001), school subsidies in 
Mexico increasing schooling and decreasing children?s work in the market 
labour force and home production (Schultz, T.P 2001).


How can social protection assist children and youth directly ? as working 
children, in building up and accessing assets and resources, or through 
micro-saving/insurance schemes enabling them to have control and management 
over their earnings?

Thanks,

Rebecca Holmes

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