Half of India's under 18 population lives in poverty: Study

[CAD]

According to a study, nearly two out of every five children - a total of 689 million children - are classed as... under 18 population lives in acute poverty, reveals a "deeply disturbing" study from Oxford University.

Across the 103 low and middle income countries surveyed, children were found to constitute 34 per cent of the total population, but 48 per cent of the poor, based on a measure that assesses a range of deprivations in health, education and living standards.

The international definition of a child, used in the study, was anyone less than 18 years of age.

"These new results are deeply disturbing as they show that children are disproportionately poor when the different dimensions of poverty are measured," said Sabina Alkire, Director of Oxford Poverty & Human Development Initiative (OPHI) at the University of Oxford.

The research examined the latest figures for the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI) by age group to analyse the particular situation of 1.8 billion children who live in 103 countries.

MPI complements traditional income-based poverty measures by capturing the severe deprivations that each person faces at the same time with respect to education, health and living standards.

The MPI assesses poverty at the individual level. If someone is deprived in a third or more of ten (weighted) indicators - nutrition, child mortality, years of schooling, school attendance, cooking fuel, improved sanitation, safe drinking water, electricity, flooring, assets - the global index identifies them as "MPI poor".

The extent - or intensity - of their poverty is measured by the number of deprivations they are experiencing.

According to the OPHI, nearly two out of every five children - a total of 689 million children - are classed as multi-dimensionally poor.


Half of South Asia's children and two thirds of Sub-Saharan children are multi-dimensionally poor, according to the study.





The condition of children is worse in Ethiopia, Niger and South Sudan where over 90 per cent of all children are MPI poor, according to the study which highlights the challenges that the UN's new Sustainable Development Goals for the eradication of child poverty face.




"This is a wake-up call to the international community which has adopted the global Sustainable Development Goals and takes seriously Goal 1, the eradication of poverty in all its forms and dimensions," Alkire said in a news release.

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/...ves-in-poverty-study/articleshow/59001263.cms

 

[AndrewJin]

Also has one of the highest youth malnutrition rate, worse than many Sub-Sahara African countries

 

[Great Sachin]

I knew this kind of threads is coming soon.....

 

[Sky lord]

I knew this kind of threads is coming soon.....

Hmmmm...do you have any idea, which is the only country in South Asia where stunting in children is INCREASING not decreasing?


Let me think

Oh yes, I remember....it's one of our neighbors ....best not to say anything and get banned.

 

[Margarita]

Hmmmm...do you have any idea, which is the only country in South Asia where stunting in children is INCREASING not decreasing?


Let me think

Oh yes, I remember....it's one of our neighbors ....best not to say anything and get banned.

And the same neighbor has far more proportion of undernourished people than any other country in S Asia....best not to say anything and get banned

 

[SMC]

689 million children live in poverty? How many children are there in India? The source is bharati btw, so bharatis can't complain about foreigners here.

Hmmmm...do you have any idea, which is the only country in South Asia where stunting in children is INCREASING not decreasing?


Let me think

Oh yes, I remember....it's one of our neighbors ....best not to say anything and get banned.

And the same neighbor has far more proportion of undernourished people than any other country in S Asia....best not to say anything and get banned

Why are you bringing Pakistan into this? The source is bharati, the study is British. God damn losers. Bharatis have to be the most insecure people I have ever seen. You guys start all sorts of threads in the Pakistan forums, yet can't take anything negative about your own country?

 

[Sky lord]

And the same neighbor has far more proportion of undernourished people than any other country in S Asia....best not to say anything and get banned

Would that also be the same country whose population can never tell the difference between proportional and absolute figures?

Hmmmm...better not say anything and get banned.

 

[Reichsmarschall]

Hmmmm...do you have any idea, which is the only country in South Asia where stunting in children is INCREASING not decreasing?


Let me think

Oh yes, I remember....it's one of our neighbors ....best not to say anything and get banned.

And the same neighbor has far more proportion of undernourished people than any other country in S Asia....best not to say anything and get banned

India has more undernourished people than any other country by far -- 237.7 million, or 21% of its population.

 

[Reichsmarschall]

India has more undernourished people than any other country by far -- 237.7 million, or 21% of its population.
and lets not forget this

 

[Chinese-Dragon]

I knew this kind of threads is coming soon.....

What do you mean? Did something specific happen?

 

[Sky lord]

What do you mean? Did something specific happen?

I think he means the space launch . Nothing like getting something into space that brings out the poverty p0rn.

 

[Laozi]

It is a matter of regret for all South Asian Nations.

I hope and sincerely wish that India make rapid economic progress to eradicate this menace of poverty.

For Pakistan, there is no uncertainty. Thanks to CPEC

 

[Sky lord]

Also - just to add - and this is not tongue in cheek.

Pakistanis are much more decent about this than the west. Pakistanis are always and everywhere deeply concerned about India's poor. However, the West, I gotta say their concern reaches fever pitch whenever India has a technical or scientific breakthrough and vanishes into vapor when they arrive in Delhi on chartered planes to sell arms to the Indian government. Just watch western news coverage. Very strange.

 

[Fledgingwings]

Story of the third worls.Nuclear powers yet the people that are living in misery are in great numbers.Ironic!

 

[Viny]

Even if I agree with data, then it should be big worry for western neighbors...
Abhi to sirf 50% population of under 18 has came above poverty line aur itna tassan hai indians ko, jis din full 100% over poverty line aa gaye, us din kya hoga