Half of the World’s Poor are Children

Half of all people living in poverty are younger than 18 years old, according to estimates from the 2018 Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) released today by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI). The new figures show that in 104 primarily low and middle-income countries, 662 […]

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