One idea is to arrange summer schools for able children in poor areas.

ECONOMIST: Education

Again he disagrees, claiming that children in poor areas of Britain often have nothing to distract them, which he says leads to anti-social behavior.

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And it is tackling the long-term causes of child poverty through policies aimed at pre-school children in poor areas, and a new programme designed to cut teenage pregnancy.

ECONOMIST: Child poverty

In general, poor children living in rural areas are more likely than urban children from rich households to repeat grades and leave school before completing primary education and attaining basic foundational skills.

UNESCO: EDUCATION

The National Children's Bureau, a charity, argues that the curfew he envisages will be imposed mainly in poor areas where children have no place to go for safe, legitimate, activities.

ECONOMIST: Tackling yobbery

This is hard to curb because nurses do not want to work in poor remote areas, since their children cannot get a good education there.

ECONOMIST: Papua New Guinea

Parents in poor areas were offered the choice of transferring their children to wealthier schools, but capacity limits made many such requests impossible to grant.

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