Child poverty remains staggeringly high. One in five children live on less than $1.90 a day and children are more than … twice as likely to be living in extreme income poverty compared with adults. Despite clear evidence of the effectiveness of … well-designed social protection in tackling child poverty, children are one of the population groups at highest risk of …

children at the time when unemployment soared. In contrast, countries with more comprehensive social protection cushioned the … impact of the crisis on households with children, especially if they had implemented fiscal stimulus packages at the onset of … families and children …