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24 sie 2023 · Nearly 70 million more people lived in extreme poverty in developing Asian countries last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic and rising living costs, a Philippines-based development bank has...
20 wrz 2024 · In 2020, the COVID-19 pandemic caused global extreme poverty to rise by 0.85 percentage points, reaching 9.7 percent (Figure 1). This surge in extreme poverty was largely driven by South Asia, where extreme poverty increased by 2.4 percentage points, and by 1.27 percentage points in Sub-Saharan Africa in the same year.
24 sie 2023 · The increased cost-of-living crisis sparked by surging inflation last year, combined with the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic, is continuing to push people in Asia and the Pacific into extreme poverty, according to a new report by the Asian Development Bank.
13 wrz 2023 · The report shows that globally, children comprise more than 50 per cent of the extreme poor, despite making up only a third of the world’s population. Nearly 90 per cent of children caught...
20 wrz 2023 · In South Asia, extreme poverty increased by 2.5 percentage points in 2020. However, South Asia experienced a recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021, with poverty reducing from 13.1% to 10.9%, while Latin America and the Caribbean experienced an uptick in extreme poverty.
8 paź 2024 · More than 260 million people in the Asia-Pacific region could be pushed into poverty in the next decade unless governments step up with robust social protection schemes, according to a new United Nations report released today.
15 mar 2022 · Almost two-thirds of the people who fell or remained in extreme poverty globally due to the pandemic live in South Asia. School closures have intensified learning poverty for students across the region and the average years of schooling in South Asia is expected to fall by between 0.3 to 0.5 years.
