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4 The State of the World's Young Children
4 The State of the World's Young Children
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He also noted that the child mortality rates vary geographically in a significant way; children in sub-Saharan Africa and Southern Asia face a much higher risk of dying prior to age 5 than the rest of the world. Development is not a continuous process, and Bundy emphasized 1 Thissection summarizes information presented by Donald Bundy, World Bank.
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In other words, policy makers should consider health and nutrition when implementing improvements to education. Bundy remarked that in 2008, the World Bank developed a crisis fund to respond to the financial crisis.
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Not only does early child development make sense from a human rights perspective, it also makes economic sense. STATE OF YOUNG CHILDREN IN THE ARAB REGION5 Maysoun Chehab focused on the education and health of children in the Arab region, along with the threats that challenge the development of children in the region.
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She noted that several nations have specific programs to target children from low socioeconomic backgrounds, and eight countries are involved with developing early childhood strategies in collaboration with UNICEF and other organizations. Armed conflict is a major barrier to the well-being of young children and one of the most pressing needs in the area.
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These interviews yield nationally representative data that can be used to identify health, demographic, and nutrition metrics for nationally informed programs so that policy makers can understand what is happening in their country. Kishor posited that the DHS is considered by many as the "gold standard" for providing data and noted that all DHS data are downloadable free from the DHS website in the form of recoded data files that facilitate comparative analyses and in formats that are ready for use by most analytical software programs.
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In some countries, a high proportion of children live with neither parent even though the parents are alive: in many African countries, this proportion is more than 10 percent; and in Namibia and South Africa it is more than 20 percent. While there has been much progress in primary school attendance, according to Kishor, many countries have less than 30 percent of children ages 6 to 9 attending school.
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