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Child poverty: a priority challenge

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Child poverty: a priority challenge

Autor institucional: NU. CEPAL - UNICEF Editorial: UNICEF Date: May 2010

Description

This issue of Challenges resumes the analysis of child poverty that was addressed in the first issue of the publication. The main article presents data on child poverty in Latin America, but explicitly measures it with a rights approach. This means considering children to be poor when at least one of their rights is unmet, or when they suffer at least one basic deprivation. Nonetheless, in child poverty, multiple deprivations occur simultaneously, reinforcing each other and undermining children's and adolescents' development.