Addressing poverty in a globalised economy

The World Bank World Development Indicators give some estimates of the proportion of people living on less than $2 a day: 36.58% of the population in east Asia and the Pacific; 9.79% in Europe and central Asia; 22.17% in Latin America and the Caribbean; 19.7% in the Middle East and north Africa; 77.11% in south Asia; and 71.97% in sub-Saharan Africa.2 Addressing child poverty is one of the most im [...] There was no money to repair the burned-out holes in the side of their shack, or to fix the missing rungs on the ladder that one day could trip Ana Daniel and cause her to fall more than a dozen feet to the ground. [...] Our Global Working Families Study found that 48% of parents in Botswana, 27% of parents in Mexico and 19% of parents in Vietnam had to leave a young child home alone or in the care of an unpaid child. [...] The presence of children under five in the household was associated with a lower possibility of school enrollment for older children in each of the five countries we studied. [...] The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child has been signed by 192 countries, and states that“for the purpose of guaranteeing and promoting the rights set forth in the present convention, state parties shall render appropriate assistance to parents and legal guardians in the performance of their child-rearing responsibilities and shall ensure the development of institutions, facilities and servic