As Africa’s Population Growth Explodes, Its Children Lose Out

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Date of Publication: September 9, 2014

Year of Publication: 2014

Publisher: PassBlue

Author(s): Barbara Crossette

“Among a clutch of new studies surveying the fate of children globally in 2014, a year that may be remembered as the most violent and catastrophic in more than half a century, Unicef has looked into the future of Africa and found that an unexpectedly persistent population boom is not only robbing children of opportunity, but also hobbling the continent’s economic growth and changing the world’s demographic profile.”

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