COVID-19 to add as many as 150 mln extreme poor by 2021, Islamic countries included
Global extreme poverty is expected to rise in 2020 for the first time in over 20 years as the disruption of the COVID-19 pandemic compounds the forces of conflict and climate change, the World Bank said in a report released on Wednesday (Oct 7).
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