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Africa: 20% of World’s Children Still Trapped in Extreme Poverty – UNICEF

eriinfo.com9 months ago03 mins

More than 19 per cent of children worldwide live in extreme poverty, surviving on under $3 a day, according to a new UNICEF report. Nearly 90 per cent of those children are in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, but even in high-income countries, 23 per cent live with far less income than their peers. “It…

Africa: ‘Half of Sub-Saharan African Children Still in Extreme Poverty’, Say World Bank, UNICEF

eriinfo.com11 months ago05 mins

A new report by the World Bank and UNICEF has revealed that despite global progress in reducing extreme child poverty, Sub-Saharan Africa has seen no improvement in the past decade, with more than half of children in the region still living below the poverty line. The report, ‘Child Poverty: Global, Regional and Select National Trends’,…