Young Lives Launches Child Poverty Study
Young Lives is launching a new report on child poverty in the developing world, What Inequality Means for Children, today as the High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda, co-chaired by David Cameron, meets in Bali to discuss new targets to replace the expiring Millennium Development Goals.
The study is tracking the progress of 12,000 children (in Ethiopia, India, Vietnam and Peru) over 15 years. It finds that children in the poorest families are the most at risk from serious crises that have long-term consequences for health, education and future well-being.
The report’s authors will call for the High Level Panel to include measures to address inequality: making sure that the poorest families are supported and the new development goals do not reinforce or even widen inequalities and make poor families more vulnerable.