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The Covid-19 pandemic remains Another 16 million poor children and youth in Latin America and caused a 20-year decline in poverty rates. He stated this in an interview
The Covid-19 pandemic remains Another 16 million poor children and youth in Latin America and caused a 20-year decline in poverty rates.
He stated this in an interview EFE United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Regional Advisor for Social Policy for Latin America and the Caribbean Monica Rubio during her visit to Asuncion.
Rubio assured that in 2018 morbidity 38.2% poverty among the population aged 0-18, which has risen to 46.5% as a result of the covid-19 crisis.
“Latin America and the Caribbean is home to about 87 million poor children and adolescents.”
“According to Unicef and Save the Children, the Covid-19 pandemic has been able to add 15.9 million children and adolescents are below the poverty linehe commented.
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As a result of the Covid-19 crisis, Rubio noticed a “fragmentation” of access to protection in the region, that is, those unemployment programs and policieslack of education or guarantee of health.
The effect of this fragmentation differs between those who have formal jobs and those who work in informalityhe assured.
Official employment, according to him, provides protection With insurance health, advantages relatives and access to pension for retirement, which informal workers do not have.
As an example, the expert mentioned that 60.8% of families in Latin America use their own financial resources to meet material and nutritional needs of children, adolescents and young adults aged 0 to 24 years.
Of this total, 17.9% state fundedaccording to UNICEF.
On the contrary, he pointed out that in countries such as Finland, the state finances 49.1% of the consumption of children, adolescents and young people.
“From maternity leave, parental leave, family transfer programs for children, medical services, baby carel, public school, good quality public health. All this is a social protection obligation,” he said.
In this context, he believed that “eliminating child poverty is a public policy decision that secures future productivity and growth.”
Even, in his opinion, “it is a public policy decision to avoid” that “a boy has to work and a girl is a prostitute in order to be able to eat.”
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Source: Aristegui Noticias
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