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            health and nutrition, and housing conditions which are more decent offering
            more comfort and security, etc.
                This development has resulted in an overall improvement of the children’s
            socioeconomic  welfare.  The  analysis  of  the  deprivation  composite  index
            highlights the continuing decline in the situation of children deprivation in all
            ages, over time. Thus, this index decreased by almost half, from 0.295 in 2001
            to 0.128 in 2014, an average annual decrease of about 7.0% during this period.
            This  improvement  has  concerned  the  two  residence  areas:  between  those
            dates, the average level of deprivation decreased from 0.115 to 0.052 in urban
            areas and 0.47 to 0.221 in rural areas.
                The  spatial  distance  (urban  /  rural)  of  the  average  level  of  deprivation
            shows that deprivation remains a rural phenomenon.
                2-  Multidimensional Indices of Poverty
                With emphasis on the fringe of children subject to deprivation in at least
            30% of the size of the welfare area, it appears that the multidimensional child
            poverty recorded strong downward trend. The prevalence of poor children
            increased from 43.6% in 2001 to 24.1% in 2007 and 11.0% in 2014. With these
            rates, the number of children in poverty decreased from 4.9 million children in
            2001 to 1.24 million children in 2014, an average annual reduction of 10.0% of
            the total number of poor children.
                By controlling the area of residence, the prevalence of multidimensional
            poverty decreased from 11.8% in 2001 to 6.1% in 2007 and 2.4% in 2014 in
            urban areas. These indices are respectively 74.6%, 46.9% and 22.0% in rural
            areas. It shows that child poverty remains predominantly a rural phenomenon.
            The difference between these two indices reflects the high concentration of
            child poverty in rural areas.
                With regard to children vulnerability to impoverishment, the risk of falling
            into poverty reached 23.4% in the countryside, against 5.6% in the urban areas.
            However, it is clear that if the risk of being vulnerable to multidimensional
            poverty declined in urban areas,  7.2% in 2001 versus 5.6% in 2014, it has,
            however,  increased  in  rural  areas  from 12.5%  to  23.4%  between 2001 and
            2014.
                The  rate  of  children  escape  from  poverty  is  at  different  speeds  across
            regions  of  the  country.  Between  2001  and  2014,  the  largest  decline  was
            recorded in the regions where the phenomenon is more widespread: it fell
            from 59.8% to 16.5% in "Marrakech-Safi", 46.4% to 10.0% in "Tanger-Tetouan-
            Al Hoceima", from 44.6% to 14.6% in "Béni Mellal-Khénifra".
                The examination of the correlates between the conditions of children and
            the  conditions  of  their  family  homes  shows  that  multidimensional  poverty
            affects more 5 to 6 years old children, a poverty rate of 21.0%, while the 7-14
            years old children are the least affected by this form of poverty (7.3%). Despite



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