Developing countries have low child development levels, new report states

A new research has established that a big number of children are still left behind in development matters due to where they live and circumstances under which they were born.

The report dubbed Lottery of Birth notes that in 78 per cent of the countries, at least one social or economic group has been making slower progress than more advantaged groups and is therefore being left behind – whether that group is from the poorest section of society, from disadvantaged regions inside the country, from rural areas, or from disadvantaged ethnic groups.