Tag: poor people

• Friday, June 12th 2020 - 09:59 UTC

  Fallout from pandemic could plunge 395 million people into extreme poverty

  

  The economic fallout from the coronavirus pandemic could plunge an extra 395 million people into extreme poverty and swell the total number of those living on less than US$1.90 a day worldwide to more than 1 billion, researchers said in a report on Friday.