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A briefing note from the World Bank Group and UNICEF – finds that children in developing countries are more than twice as likely as adults to live in extreme poverty. Highlights Ending Extreme Poverty: A Focus on Children – a briefing note from the World Bank Group and UNICEF – finds that children...

This study, conducted by both UNICEF and the World Bank Group, found that there are almost 385 million children globally living in extreme poverty conditions. It also noted that children are disproportionately affected - in fact, children made up one third of the sample population examined in this...

This paper reprises the changes in global poverty and discusses the case for continued development assistance to middle‐income countries. It is interesting to also note whether this trend that was captured in the beginning of the previous decade is still following as predicted.