The richest even richer thanks to corona and war in Ukraine: ‘Being poor has never been so expensive’ Economy

Compared to the period before corona, an additional 263,000,000 people may have fallen below the poverty line at the end of this year, development organization Oxfam Novib (ON) has calculated. The global crisis has caused millions of people to lose their jobs and the poor population in particular has been hit hard by the virus. Many breadwinners lost their lives or health, which plunged entire families into poverty.

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