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Source of "19,000 children per day" figureUnited Nations Development Program Human Development Report 1997 pages 92-93

"Action on global debt. The highly indebted poor countries need debt relief now -- not at some indeterminate point in the future...The meager financial costs contrast with the appalling human costs of inaction. The Group of Seven and the Bretton Woods institutions should aim to end the debt crisis for the poorest countries by 2000....Relieved of their annual debt repayments, the severely indebted countries could use the funds for investments that in Africa alone would save the lives of about 21 million children by 2000 and provide 90 million girls and women with access to basic education."

With so little of the debt burden having been relieved so far, these millions of children are not being saved; instead, they are still suffering and dying as a result of the drain caused by endless debt payments on countries' budgets for health, sanitation, nutrition and other programs.

Here's the math: 21 million / 3 = 7 million; 7 million / 365 = 19,178

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