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Staff Correspondent | Published: 15:04, Jun 09,2021 | Updated: 15:33, Jun 09,2021
Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on
Finance minister AHM Mustafa Kamal on Wednesday said he did not admit that around 2.4crore people had become new poor in Bangladesh due to Covid crisis.
Answering to a question on the country new poor after a meeting of the cabinet committee on government purchases, he wanted to know how the number was calculated.
Local think-tank Power and Participation Research Centre put the number of new poor at 2.45 crore while another think-tank Centre for Policy Dialogue said that 1.6 crore people became new poor.
In its ‘Bangladesh Development Update-2021’ World Bank estimated the upper poverty rate would increase by 7 percentage points to 30 per cent due to the novel coronavirus spread.