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Multidimensional Child Poverty in Mozambique
Mozambique experienced significant growth between 2000 and 2016, when GDP per capita1 more than doubled. However, children did not fully share the benefits; they are, in fact, likely to be among the most deprived children in the world as they live in a country with some of the highest levels of extreme poverty (64...
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The Impacts of COVID-19 on Children in Mozambique
UNICEF launched a series of policy briefs to highlight the impact of COVID 19 on children in Mozambique. This first note, accompanied by a data sheet, discusses the key areas of concern for the well-being of children in short-, medium-, and long-term if the right actions are not taken. This includes the risks of f...
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Child Poverty in Mozambique – Multiple Overlapping Deprivation Analysis
In this paper, we provide estimates and analysis of child multidimensional poverty in Mozambique. Drawing on data from the Mozambique Household Budget Survey of 2014/15 (IOF), we define child multidimensional poverty using the Multiple Overlapping Analysis (MODA). We define three age groups of children, and a tota...