Street Children Revisited: Critical Perspectives on Street-Connected Children in a Fragile Zimbabwean Socioeconomic Climate.
The aim of this article, which is based on a review of theoretical and empirical literature including policy documents, is to explore the socioeconomic situation of street-connected children in Zimbabwe's current socioeconomic turbulence. This article will investigate the extent of deprivation and v...
| Published in: | Social Development Issues (Social Development Issues) Vol. 41; no. 1; pp. 64 - 83 |
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2019
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