How has COVID-19 impacted world poverty?
Despite recent trends of shrinking global inequality, the pandemic has reversed that trend and is plunging many poor countries into a deeper state of poverty.
Despite recent trends of shrinking global inequality, the pandemic has reversed that trend and is plunging many poor countries into a deeper state of poverty.
COVID-19 is likely to push between 88 and 115 million people into extreme poverty, according to the Poverty and Shared Prosperity Report 2020.