Africa: Natural Disasters Double Likelihood of Child Poverty - Study

Children in some disaster-prone regions are twice as likely to be living in chronic poverty, according to new research.

A report from the London-based Overseas Development Institute (ODI) looks at the impact of natural disasters across different stages of a child’s life in India and Kenya - and warns that climate change is making such incidents more frequent and more intense

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