PHA-Exchange> New Report: "Child Poverty in the Developing World"

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From: "Dieter Neuvians MD" <neuvians at mweb.co.za>

> New Report: "Child Poverty in the Developing World"
>  
> LONDON, 21 October 2003 - Drawing from the largest, most accurate 
> survey sample of children ever assembled, a new UNICEF-sponsored 
> report has found that over one billion children suffer the severe 
> effects of poverty. 
>  
> Using a pioneering methodology, the survey measures the extent of 
> child poverty, in terms not only of income, but of deprivation of 
> basic human rights such as shelter, food, water, sanitation, 
> health, education and information. The researchers analysed sur-
> vey data on nearly 1.2 million children from 46 countries col-
> lected mainly during the late 1990's.
>  
> The data is published in a new UNICEF-commissioned report enti-
> tled, "Child Poverty in the Developing World" that was launched 
> today at the House of Commons in London. The research team in-
> cluded Dave Gordon of the Centre for International Poverty Re-
> search at the University of Bristol and Peter Townsend of the 
> London School of Economics. 
>  
> The results of the study show: 
> * One child of every three lives in a dwelling with more than
>   five people per room, or with a mud floor. 
> * Nearly 20% of the world's children do not have safe water
>   sources or have more than a 15-minute walk to water. 
> * Over 15% of children under five in the developing world are se-
>   verely malnourished. In South Asia alone, more than 90 million
>   children go hungry every day. 
> * 134 million children between the ages of 7 to 18 have never
>   been to school. 
> * Girls are more likely to go without schooling than boys. In the
>   Middle East and North Africa, in particular, girls are three
>   times more likely than boys to have never attended to school.
>  
> Download report as Adobe PDF file (44 pp. 298 kB) at:
> http://www.unicef.org/media/files/Child_poverty.pdf
>