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Poverty, family structure and state spending

| 28 Feb 2013 | 

   
tags : child poverty, welfare,

Here is another report on the World Family Map - this time on family socio-economics.
Many of the world’s families are poor, which puts their children at greater risk of social, emotional, behavioral, and physical health problems than those who are not poor. Poverty in turn is linked to factors like parental education, employment, family structure and social benefits. Deficiencies in any of these areas are likely to reduce a family’s income and wellbeing.

The World Bank sets the absolute poverty line at US$1.25 a day, and on that measure the World Family Map study (which does not have data for all countries) finds the highest rates of poverty in Africa, with rates in sub-Saharan Africa ranging from17 percent to 64 percent (in Nigeria). In other regions rates vary considerably. In Central and South America rates vary from 1 percent to 15 percent (only three countries in the latter category (Bolivia, Colombia and Nicaragua). In Asia they vary from zero in Malaysia to 42 percent in India.

Read More at Mercator.Net.