Introduction

Maneka Jayasinghe

Chapter Chapter 1 in Poverty, Food Consumption, and Economic Development, 2022, pp 1-4 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract There has been a notable decline in poverty globally, with the reported number of people living in extreme poverty having declined from 36% in 1990 to 10% in 2015. However, new challenges such as COVID-19 hinder global efforts to eradicate poverty. According to the World Institute for Development Economics Research at the United Nations University, the economic downturn resulting from the global pandemic could increase global poverty by about 8% of the total population, increasing the poverty levels for the first time since 1990.

Date: 2022
References: Add references at CitEc
Citations:

There are no downloads for this item, see the EconPapers FAQ for hints about obtaining it.

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:spr:sprchp:978-981-16-8743-3_1

Ordering information: This item can be ordered from
http://www.springer.com/9789811687433

DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-8743-3_1

Access Statistics for this chapter

More chapters in Springer Books from Springer
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Sonal Shukla () and Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing ().