International aid group Oxfam has urged world leaders to agree a comprehensive rescue package of $2.5 trillion to prevent half a billion more people being pushed into poverty by the coronavirus pandemic.
It warned that the economic fallout of the coronavirus risked setting back the fight against poverty by a decade, and as much as 30 years in some regions including Africa and the Middle East.
Oxfam's new report 'Dignity Not Destitution' which presents fresh analysis conducted by researchers at the King's College London and the Australian National University, estimates that as many as half a billion people, or 8% of the world's population, could be forced into poverty. "An 'Emergency Rescue Package for All' would enable poor countries to
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