The outbreak of the disease in 21 villages under six blocks of the district was reported last month and affected mostly children.

Ending Extreme Poverty: A Focus on Children – a briefing note from the World Bank Group and UNICEF – finds that children in developing countries are more than twice as likely as adults to live in extreme poverty.

This paper uses household surveys from 89 countries to estimate the rate of extreme poverty among children in the developing world. The estimates are based on the same surveys and welfare measures as official World Bank poverty estimates.

Almost one in three children are both poor and socially deprived in Armenia, the United Nations' children agency said in a report Monday, September 26.

Flash floods have destroyed crops in Somalia leaving nearly half the population short of food

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - World leaders need to ramp up investment to achieve a set of global goals agreed a year ago to combat poverty, inequality, and make the world a safer place by

About one quarter of babies worldwide still delivered in the absence of skilled birth attendant’

First, our healthy eating message was framed as an exposition of manipulative food industry marketing practices that influence and deceive adolescents and others into eating larger quantities of un

Men are more than twice as likely to be in formal full-time employment as women in 17 countries with poor records on gender equality.

Child malnutrition cost the Philippines $7 billion or nearly 3 per cent of its GDP in one year in terms of education spending and lost productivity, while hunger-related stunting is on the rise amo

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