Global trade keeps a billion children in poverty, says Unicef: "... globalised trade and cuts to aid budgets are creating an ever-greater chasm between the richest and poorest countries.
More than one billion young people in the developing world are now living in conditions of severe deprivation, according to a report for the United Nations Children's Fund (Unicef). Tens of millions of children in developing countries still do not have access to basic human needs such as food, water and sanitation, the study found.
The report is the first attempt to scientifically measure world poverty, and paints a grim picture of how little the lives of the world's poorest people have improved in the last few years."
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