UN: Half of Myanmar’s Population May Fall into Poverty by 2022
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The United Nations says the effects of Myanmar’s political crisis and the coronavirus could push half the country’s population into poverty by 2022.
The warning came in a report released last week by the U.N.’s Development Program (UNDP). It said as many as 25 million people, or nearly half the population, is in danger of dropping into poverty.
Both COVID-19 and the country’s ongoing political crisis “are pushing the most
vulnerable back and more deeply into poverty, the UNDP’s Kanni Wignaraja told Reuters. She is Assistant U.N. Secretary-General and leads UNDP’s operations in Asia.
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