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Pandemic has increased poverty and starvation in many countries--UN and OECD studies

Tue, 2020-12-01 19:03 — mike kraft

Pandemic fills ranks of extreme poverty worldwide The coronavirus pandemic is pushing the number of people worldwide who need humanitarian assistance to survive to new highs, the United Nations said on Tuesday, dramatically increasing the ranks of extreme poverty in just one year. Matthew Lavietes U.S.

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Up to 150 million could join extreme poor, World Bank says

Thu, 2020-10-08 16:25 — mike kraft

Up to 150 million could join extreme poor, World Bank says JOHANNESBURG (AP) — 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... AP NEWS

JOHANNESBURG (AP) — 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 in an outlook grimmer than before.

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Push to bring coronavirus vaccines to the poor faces trouble

Thu, 2020-10-01 20:33 — mike kraft

Push to bring coronavirus vaccines to the poor faces trouble LONDON (AP) — An ambitious humanitarian project to deliver coronavirus vaccines to the world's poorest people is facing potential shortages of money, cargo planes, refrigeration and vaccines... AP NEWS

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Are people to be left to die?' Vaccine pleas fill UN summit

Thu, 2020-09-24 18:53 — mike kraft

'Are people to be left to die?' Vaccine pleas fill UN summit JOHANNESBURG (AP) — If the United Nations was created from the ashes of World War II, what will be born from the global crisis of COVID-19? Many world leaders at this week’s virtual U.N.... AP NEWS

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Pandemic makes tackling global woes more critical than ever: Bill Gates

Tue, 2020-09-15 15:57 — mike kraft

Pandemic makes tackling global woes more critical than ever: Bill Gates The coronavirus pandemic has wiped out progress on lofty goals such as ending world poverty and hunger in the next decade, but the economic damage of COVID-19 shows how badly such global development is needed, philanthropist Bill Gates said. Ellen Wulfhorst U.S.

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The Other Way Covid Will Kill: Hunger

Fri, 2020-09-11 15:04 — mike kraft

...As the global economy absorbs the most punishing reversal of fortunes since the Great Depression, hunger is on the rise. Those confronting potentially life-threatening levels of so-called food insecurity in the developing world are expected to nearly double this year to 265 million, according to the United Nations World Food Program.

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