It was the best of times, and it was the worst of times, this opening of the famous novel A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens. / p>
Of course, the best times were for the wealthy who accumulated wealth and got richer during the outbreak of the epidemic, but it was certainly not the case for people who lost their jobs and others who had difficulties in life financially and healthily due to the Corona virus and became poorer than their poverty
Imam Ali Karmullah says his face (If poverty were a man, he would have killed him), recently a shocking report was issued in which the World Bank warned that 2020 would witness the first increase in the rate of extreme poverty since 1998, at the time of the Asian financial crisis, in While other reports show the rise in the wealth of the world's rich to an unprecedented record level exceeding 10 trillion dollars
The epidemic is stalking the poor
The financial suffering forced the poor to be on the front lines in the face of the brutality of the epidemic in search of a livelihood, but this did not encourage them to reduce wages and lose jobs, while the rich were hibernating in home offices. And they make money
With the continuation of the epidemic, the World Bank expects that the pandemic will drive more than 115 million people into a census of extreme poverty, which is defined as living on less than $ 1.90 a day. Extreme poverty and poverty are likely to affect the proportion of It will reach 9.4% of the world’s population in 2020, and previous forecasts see it decline to 7.9% this year, but the winds have come in a way that ships do not like, and the epidemic has hit these estimates.
Of course, the increase in Corona injuries means the continuation of the economic suffering that reflects on the poor more, amid estimates that the global poverty circle will expand to reach 547 million people with incomes less than $ 5.5 per day. These shocking numbers of extreme poverty and poverty come depending on The severity of the global economic downturn and the spread of the epidemic
The magnitude of the repercussions of the Corona pandemic is highlighted by its impact even in the largest economies of the world, raising poverty rates in the US states at an unprecedented rate, as researchers at Columbia University found that more than eight million Americans have fallen into poverty since last May, to increase Poverty rate to 16.7%, compared to 14.3% in May despite the incentive packages that came in the context of the election game of the rich.
This says World Bank Group President David Malpass: The epidemic and global recession may cause a serious setback to development and poverty reduction, and countries will need to prepare for a different economy after the epidemic by allowing capital, labor, skills and innovation to move into businesses and sectors. New
The Rich Get Rich
And in another world that is almost separate from this reality and benefiting from it even intoxicated, the Corona virus has boosted the total wealth of the richest people in the world to the highest level ever, as the total wealth of the ...
