Progress in fight against child poverty could be wiped out by Covid, says report

UN and World Bank call for structural changes to tackle the effects of the pandemic on children, who make up half the world's poor

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The world's limited progress in tackling child poverty over recent years could be destroyed by the coronavirus pandemic, the UN and World Bank have warned.

Slow-paced, unequally distributed" progress meant one in six children were living in poverty even before the pandemic, according to a joint study.