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UN expert warns 176Mln people worldwide could to fall into poverty amid COVID-19 Pandemic

Moscow, Sep 11 (Sputnik) - Olivier De Schutter, the UN rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, urged the world leaders on Friday to adopt improved social protection measures, as over 170 million people were at risk of falling into poverty due to the coronavirus pandemic-related hardships.
"The economic downturn resulting from the pandemic is unprecedented in times of peace since the Great Depression, he said, adding another 176 million people could fall into poverty when using a poverty baseline of 3.20 USD/day. This is equivalent to an increase in the poverty rate of 2.3 percentage points compared to a no-COVID-19 scenario," the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights said in a press release that accompanied the report.
De Schutter noted in his report that the World Bank's
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