Nearly a fifth of children in developing countries are
living in extreme poverty, the World Bank and the UN's children's agency say. The
children - nearly 385m in total - were in households making $1.90 (£1.45) a day
or less, the report said. They include half the children in sub-Saharan Africa
and more than a third of those in South Asia.
Anthony Lake of Unicef said, "They are the worst off of
the worst off and the youngest children are the worst off of all, because the
deprivations they suffer affect the development of their bodies and their
minds."
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