Up to 150 million people, most of them in middle-income countries, could slip into extreme poverty by late next year because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Bank says.
FILE - In this Saturday, March 21, 2020 file photo, people travel by canoe during a coronavirus lockdown in the floating slum of Makoko in Lagos, Nigeria. Up to 150 million people could slip into extreme poverty, living on less than $1.90 a day, by late next year depending on how badly economies shrink during the COVID-19 pandemic, the World Bank said Wednesday, Oct. 7, 2020 in an outlook grimmer than before.
Most of the new extreme poor, more than 110 million even by the World Bank’s baseline estimate, will be in South Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Recovery, experts say, could take a decade — a shattering blow to people who had pulled themselves from poverty and saw a better life ahead. But in Africa, some countries had made “impressive strides” against poverty and several had some of the world’s fastest-growing economies before the pandemic. Now Africa’s 54 countries say they need $100 billion per year over the next three years to fight COVID-19 and its economic and social effects.
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