UNICEF Child Poverty Report Doesn’t Measure Poverty, But Inequality

By: Tim Worstoll – 

Unicef has released another installment in their annual look at child poverty in the developed nations. And they’ve managed to pile a grievous error on top of their usual misunderstandings to leave us with a report that we really shouldn’t take seriously: for it’s really not a serious report. There are, of course, numerous newspaper reports about it for that’s the way these sorts of reports are planned. Give every country a page in the report and the newspapers in each country will write about that page thus garnering considerable publicity for the issuing organisation. But a closer look really does show that we just shouldn’t be paying much attention to this one.

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