Not all poor children can become slumdog millionaires

We know that childhood experience has a strong impact on opportunities later in life. In France, for example, 1 in 4 homeless people were in foster care as children[1], showing how crucial it is to support disadvantaged children from an early age. In developing countries, the situation is far worse: almost 385 million children were living in extreme poverty in 2013[2] –  meaning that household members were surviving on an average of US$1.90 a day or less per person. More...