Child Poverty: The Global Crisis Hiding in Plain Sight

Reading the 2025 Child Poverty in Australia report, I found myself wondering: How often do we actually talk about children living in poverty? Certainly nowhere near as much as we should! Too often, in fact, children in poverty remain on the margins, both within academic research and in practice. Granted, there are studies on child …

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Why are Sri Lanka’s efforts to develop Child Multidimensional Poverty Index commendable?  

Hearty congratulations to Sri Lanka for pioneering the Child Multidimensional Poverty Index (Child MPI).  As described here,  the recently developed Sri Lanka Child MPI measures poverty among children aged 0-4. The tool covers four poverty dimensions and twelve corresponding deprivation indicators (Table 1). It considers a child to be multidimensionally poor if he/she is deprived …

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