. More than 30% of children in developing countries about 600 million live on less than US $1 a day. Every 3.6 seconds one … person dies of starvation, usually it is a child under the age of 5. Poverty hits children hardest and creates an environment … a report comparing life for children in 24 OECD countries. Australia ranked second from the bottom, with 12% of this …

Russia, Mexico, South Africa, and Colombia. The paper addresses three main questions: First, how poor were children relative …, protected children from higher rates of child poverty? For this question, we disaggregated incomes to identify tax and transfer …

deprivation of children aged 7 to 17 years, and the outcomes were compared to the incidence of income poverty. The analyses reveal …

. And with a relatively young population, the poverty situation concerns largely children who are at the critical stages of … their physical, mental, and social development. This report provides a comprehensive profile of children who are living in … that in 2009, 13.4 million or over a third of all children aged below 18 are living below the poverty line. Both the …