SA efforts to tackle child poverty miss the mark
Report says SA spends R680bn a year to tackle child poverty yet 13-million children live below the poverty line
SA is making slow progress in alleviating child poverty despite spending up to R680bn a year on efforts to improve their lot, the Nelson Mandela Children’s Fund reports.
SA’s spending on measures to tackle child poverty is high by international standards, yet an estimated 13-million children live below the poverty line, inhabiting households where the average income per person is less than R575 per month. SA spends 9.8% of GDP on programmes that support children living in poverty, compared to the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) average of between 3% and 3.5% of GDP, said the report...
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