SPECIAL FEATURE
More than four years of progress against poverty has
been erased by COVID-19
Number of people living in extreme poverty in 2022:
581 million Pre-pandemic projection
657-676 million
aphorism: “A rising tide lifts all boats”. As Ian Goldin, Professor of Globalisation and Development at Oxford University, put it: “Globalisation has been the source of the greatest improvements in livelihoods in the history of humanity.” The global financial and
Current estimate
economic crisis of 2007-2009 inflicted a first massive blow to the development model of unfettered capitalism as the
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