Tag: Pandemic
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Pandemic to push more than 32m people to extreme poverty – UN
The number of people living in extreme poverty will increase by more than 32 million in 2020 due to the Coronavirus (COVID-19), the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) said in a report released on Thursday.COVID-19 has had a catastrophic economic impact on the least developed countries (LDCs) where the poor has been…