{"id":85053,"date":"2020-10-24T19:18:31","date_gmt":"2020-10-24T13:48:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/factly.forumias.com\/?p=18099"},"modified":"2021-06-22T16:54:20","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T11:24:20","slug":"one-in-six-children-living-in-extreme-poverty-world-bank-and-unicef","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/one-in-six-children-living-in-extreme-poverty-world-bank-and-unicef\/","title":{"rendered":"One in six children living in extreme poverty: World Bank and UNICEF"},"content":{"rendered":"\r\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong>\u00a0World Bank Group and UN Children\u2019s Fund(UNICEF) has released a report titled \u201c<em>Global Estimate of Children in Monetary Poverty\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Key Highlights from the report:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>An estimated 1 in 6 children globally lived in extreme poverty(surviving on less than $1.90 a day) before the pandemic and this is set to worsen significantly.<\/li>\r\n<li>Sub Saharan Africa accounts for two-thirds of children living in extreme poverty.South Asia accounts for nearly a fifth of these children.<\/li>\r\n<li>The number of children living in extreme poverty decreased between 2013-2017 by 29 million.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Recommendations:<\/strong>\u00a0Governments should scale up and adjust their social protection systems and programmes to prepare for future shocks.This includes:<\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li>Innovations for financial sustainability<\/li>\r\n<li>strengthening legal and institutional frameworks<\/li>\r\n<li>protecting human capital<\/li>\r\n<li>expanding child and family benefits such as paid parental leave and quality child care for all.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<p><strong>Additional Facts:<\/strong><\/p>\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\r\n<li><strong>UNICEF:\u00a0<\/strong>It is a United Nations agency responsible for providing humanitarian and developmental aid to children worldwide.\u00a0<strong>Headquarters:\u00a0<\/strong>New York City, US.<\/li>\r\n<\/ul>\r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>News:\u00a0World Bank Group and UN Children\u2019s Fund(UNICEF) has released a report titled \u201cGlobal Estimate of Children in Monetary Poverty\u201d. Facts: Key Highlights from the report: An estimated 1 in 6 children globally lived in extreme poverty(surviving on less than $1.90 a day) before the pandemic and this is set to worsen significantly. Sub Saharan Africa&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/one-in-six-children-living-in-extreme-poverty-world-bank-and-unicef\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">One in six children living in extreme poverty: World Bank and UNICEF<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[956],"tags":[2187,1920,2188],"class_list":["post-85053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-schemes-and-programs","tag-global-estimate-of-children-in-monetary-poverty-report","tag-unicef","tag-world-bank","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":1700784707,"cached_date":1704660894},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85053","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=85053"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85053\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}