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Sunday, July 29, 2012

World Children 2012

From: Ruggiero, Mrs. Ana Lucia (WDC)
Save the Children
Child Development Index 2012: Progress, Challenges and Inequality

Available online PDF [36p.]  at: http://bit.ly/P6Pfmi

…..The 2012 edition of the Child Development Index tells a story of success. This edition of the Index shows that substantial progress has been made in addressing the most basic threats to child survival and well-being. On average, the lives of children around the world in the indicators we measured improved by more than 30%.
This means that the chances of a child going to school were one-third higher, and the chances of an infant dying before their fifth birthday were one-third lower at the end of the 2000s than a decade before. During this period child well-being improved in 90% of the countries surveyed…..” 

Content:

Executive summary
Box: Measuring children’s well-being
1 A decade of progress in child well-being
Developing countries accelerate progress
Inequalities between developed and developing countries remain
Box: The Child Development Index and the Human Development Index
2 Undernutrition: holding back progress
Under-five mortality
Primary school enrolment
Undernutrition
Box: The uncounted
3 Food and financial crises threaten increased undernutrition
Conclusions
Recommendations
Appendix

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