Good News or Bad News for Africa: Recent Trends in Monetary Child Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
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The analysis in this note uses data produced for the World Bank’s recent Policy Research Working Paper on global trends in monetary child poverty and focuses specifically on sub-Saharan Africa. It reveals both good news and bad news about recent progress toward eradicating child poverty. The analysis reveals the good news that the percentage of African children living in extreme poverty has declined, even given the pandemic of 2020. This fact serves as a reminder that progress can be made even in the most challenging circumstances. However, the rest of the world has made more rapid progress toward the achievement of the SDG target to eradicate extreme child poverty by 2030. As a result, the share of extremely poor children in the world has become dramatically more concentrated in Africa.
