Child poverty in Kosovo
- Document number
- 2359
- Date
- 2010
- Title
- Child poverty in Kosovo
- Author/publisher
- United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF)
- Availability
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- Document type(s)
- Research/Study/Analysis,
- Keywords
- Child Trafficking, Child Prostitution, Child Pornography, Best Interests Principle, Child Victims of Trafficking, Separated Migrant Children, Unaccompanied minors, Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC), Child protection systems, Family reunification, Guardian, Family Tracing, Age Assessment, Freedom from Detention, Interim Care, Integration, Adoption,
- Summary
- Recent studies commissioned by UNICEF Kosovo show clearly that children are at significantly greater risk of poverty in Kosovo compared to the general population. Using the generally accepted consumption poverty line of €1.417 per person per day, based on 2006/7 Household Budget Survey data, 46.2% of the Kosovo population is in poverty, whereas 48.6% of children aged 0-19 are in poverty. The highest risks of poverty are faced by children who live in households with three or more children; children aged 0-14; children of unemployed parents; children in households receiving social assistance; and children in households with low levels of education. Whilst the risk of poverty is lower for children where at least one family member is employed, children in wage-earning households make up 36% of all children in poverty in Kosovo.
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