America's shame : children living in the shadows of America's prosperity / Carol Camp Yeakey, Jeanita W. Richardson and Judith Brooks Buck -- Talking poverty : urban Scots and social deprivation / David Matheson -- Fenced into cycles of deprivation : orphans, their female carers and education in Malawi / Rob McBride -- Roma childhood in eastern Europe / Tamás Kozma, Gabriella Pusztai and Katalin Torkos -- Coming to America : dashed hopes and uncertain futures / Elavie Ndura -- The loss of identity and the underutilization of black children's educational potential : rethinking assimilation globally / Kassie Freeman -- Children and youth in poverty in Trinidad and Tobago : a lack of commitment in the midst of plenty / Frank C. Worrell -- The dilemma of child soldiering in sub-Saharan Africa / Kingsley Banya and Juliet Elu -- Violence, democracy and education : an analytic framework -- Jamil Salmi -- The reach and possibilities of educational reform for the rural poor in Mexico / Maria Teresa Tatto -- Poverty and education : Brazil's search for viable solutions? / Francis Musa Boakari -- Small hands : global dimensions of child labor and exploitation / Carol Camp Yeakey and Judith Brooks Buck -- Child protection and survival in southern Africa : focus on child welfare policy in Namibia / Rodney K. Hopson -- The health and cognitive consequences of international child poverty / Jeanita W. Richardson -- Juvenile institutionalization practices in India : a study of two institutions in Madras / Sesha Kethineni and Tricia Klosky -- Child poverty in Sierra Leone : vignettes from the Leonenet Street Children's Project / Samuel Hinton -- Stolen childhood : cultural constructions of "unmarried" pregnancy in Bangladesh / Margot Wilson -- The World Bank, NGOs and the state of development in sub-Saharan Africa : implications for alleviating poverty and advancing societal reform / Kingsley Banya -- Defeating the trends : in search of a better future / Ximena de la Barra.