COVID-19 To Push More Than 34 Million People Into Extreme Poverty In 2020 – OpEd

By Santo D. Banerjee

The COVID-19 pandemic is threatening to deal a huge blow to global efforts for eradicating extreme poverty and hunger, two of the vital goals of the 17 SDGs. A new UN report expects more than 34 million people to fall below the extreme poverty line in 2020. 56 percent of them will be in African countries....