entertainment: Coronavirus crisis could see number of extreme poor rise to 1.1 billion worldwide: researchers

Thursday, June 11, 2020

Coronavirus crisis could see number of extreme poor rise to 1.1 billion worldwide: researchers

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 $1.90 a day worldwide to more than 1 billion, researchers said in a report on Friday.