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UNDP/S. Omer Sadaat Children in Shade Bara village, Herat province, Afghanistan.         20 September 2018 Economic Development Half of all people living in poverty are younger than 18 years old, according to estimates from a new report released on Thursday by the United Nations Development Programme ( UNDP ) and partners. The new figures in the 2018 global Multidimensional Poverty Index ( MPI ) show that in 104 primarily low- and middle-income countries, 662 million children are considered poor according to multiple different indicators. In 35 of these countries. Children account for at least 50 per cent of the total. The 2018 MPI, produced by UNDP and the University of Oxford’s Poverty and Human Development Initiative, provides the most comprehensive view of the many ways in which 1.3 billion people worldwide experience poverty in their daily lives. The MPI looks beyond income to understand how people experience poverty i

Rising number of young people excluded from jobs, education and training Çourtesy:UN News World Bank/Li Wenyong Employed youth, between the ages of 15 and 24, face a greater risk than older workers of losing their jobs because of automation.         9 March 2020 Economic Development The number of young people around the world who are neither employed, studying or in some kind of training, is on the rise, according to a new report released on Monday by the International Labour Organization (ILO). And young women are more than twice as likely as their male counterparts to be affected. Increasing automation, a narrow focus of vocational training and a lack of jobs to match qualifications, are leaving young people with a precarious future in the labour market, says the report, officially called:  Global Employment Trends for Youth 2020: Technology and the future of jobs  (GET Youth 2020). Moreover, employees between the ages of