UNICEF and Save the Children UK issued a report – Progress in Child Well-being: Building On What Works – “showing that children’s well-being has improved dramatically thanks to increased political will globally, supportive policies and well-focused programmes and resources, but that the gains will be sustained only if the most disadvantaged and vulnerable children are reached The report “draws on a more in-depth study commissioned by UNICEF and Save the Children UK, and authored by the Overseas Development Institute.” The report “points to a vastly improved child mortality rate.   Compared to 1990, 12,000 fewer children under five die every day in 2010.  Between 1990 and 2008, stunting due to malnutrition declined in developing countries from 40 per cent to 29 per cent. Impressive gains have also been seen in education. In the decade between 1999 and 2009, the number of children enrolled in pre-primary education jumped almost 40 per cent from 113 million to 157 million; 58 million additional children enrolled in primary school; and the number of primary-aged children out of school decreased by 39 million.”
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