PHM-Exch> Child Development Index 2012: Progress, Challenges and Inequality

[Claudio Schuftan]

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC) <ruglucia at paho.org>
crossposted from: EQUIDAD at listserv.paho.org


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*Child Development Index 2012:
Progress, Challenges and Inequality

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*Save The Children

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Available online PDF [36p.]  at: http://bit.ly/P6Pfmi ****

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“…..The 2012 edition of the Child Development Index tells a story of
success. This edition of the Index shows that substantial progress has been
made in addressing the most basic threats to child survival and well-being.
On average, the lives of children around the world in the indicators we
measured improved by more than 30%.
This means that the chances of a child going to school were one-third
higher, and the chances of an infant dying before their fifth birthday were
one-third lower at the end of the 2000s than a decade before. During this
period child well-being improved in 90% of the countries surveyed…..”

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*Content:

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*Executive summary *****

Box: Measuring children’s well-being ****

*1 A decade of progress in child well-being *****

Developing countries accelerate progress ****

Inequalities between developed and developing countries remain ****

Box: The Child Development Index and the Human Development Index ****

*2 Undernutrition: holding back progress *****

Under-five mortality ****

Primary school enrolment ****

Undernutrition ****

Box: The uncounted ****

*3 Food and financial crises threaten increased undernutrition *****

*Conclusions *****

*Recommendations *****

*Appendix

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