UN report found 71M people pushed into
poverty after the war in Ukraine started
Posted By: MDConservative, 7/8/2022 10:11:18 AM
A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as a result of soaring food and energy prices that climbed in the weeks following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the United Nations Development Program said in a report Thursday. The UNDP estimates that 51.6 million more people fell into poverty in the first three months after the war, living off $1.90 a day or less. This pushed the total number globally at this threshold to 9% of the world's population. An additional 20 million people slipped to the poverty line of $3.20 a day.
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A staggering 71 million more people around the world are experiencing poverty as a result of soaring food and energy prices that climbed in the weeks following Russia's invasion of Ukraine, the United Nations Development Program said in a report Thursday.
The UNDP estimates that 51.6 million more people fell into poverty in the first three months after the war, living off $1.90 a day or less. This pushed the total number globally at this threshold to 9% of the world's population. An additional 20 million people slipped to the poverty line of $3.20 a day.
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Actual poverty is terrible...but here's the kicker: UN Development Program Administrator Achim Steiner claimed there is a need for the global economy to step up, adding that there is enough wealth in the world to manage the crisis, “but our ability to act in unison and rapidly is a constraint." Sounds "humanitarian", but think about that...