Despite significant progress in the reduction of extreme poverty in recent years, millions of children are still poor … protection policies can help address the multifaceted nature of child poverty and improve children's well-being, especially in …-specific needs and vulnerabilities of children during all stages of the policy cycle. …

. 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 …

via "graduation" from the scheme, and find a positive effect on children in households that graduated just before 2013 …, but none for children in households that remain in the programme. …