Credit: UNICEF / Oleg-Popov
NEW YORK, Dec 12 2023 (IPS) – Child poverty persists even in some of the world’s richest countries, new findings from a UNICEF report reveal.
UNICEF’s Office of Global Insight and Policy’s details the prevalence of child poverty in 39 EU and OECD countries. It reveals the extent of child poverty in these countries and how these cases vary from middle-to-high-income countries. Titled Child Poverty in the Midst of Wealth, this report is the latest in the Innocenti Report Card series, which observes children’s well-being in high-income countries. Within these countries, over 69 million children were living in households ear…