Child poverty

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A boy bathes in a polluted river in Jakarta,Indonesia.

Child poverty refers to the phenomenon of children living in poverty. This applies to children that come from poor families ororphans being raised with limited, or in some cases absent, state resources. Children that fail to meet the minimum acceptablestandard of living for the nation where that child lives are said to be poor. In developing countries, these standards are lower and when combined with the increased number of orphans the effects are more extreme.

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• 1Definition
• 2Measuring child poverty
  • 2.1Capability Approach and the Child Development Index
• 3Prevalence
• 4Causes
• 5Effect
  • 5.1Developed countries
  • 5.2Developing countries
• 6Cycle of poverty
• 7Policy Implications
• 8See also
• 9References
• 10Further reading
• 11External links