Poverty surges up throughout in the South Asia Pacific zone during long time of Covid-19 pandemic time.
Low-income families receive food assistance during a lockdown due to the pandemic in Dhaka, Bangladesh. An estimated 75 million to 80 million more people in Asia and the Pacific were pushed into extreme poverty because of disruptions in economic activity due to COVID-19 last year, according to a recent report from the Asian Development Bank. Before the pandemic, the percent of the population living in extreme poverty was expected to decrease. Data from a UN Women report provides essential insight into the health, economic, and social implications for COVID-19 recovery for women and girls in the Asia-Pacific region. In more than one-third of the countries that reported data, unemployment increased by at least 20% last year. The report noted that many families were forced to cope by deferring payments, eating less, drawing from savings, borrowing money, selling property, or pawning assets. Strategies like these can have “long-term harmful or scarring effects,” the report stated. The...
