The Gambia is among the 12 African countries out of the 20 quickest counties in the world to have reduced its poverty levels to the COVID-19 pandemic, a UN study says.
Congo, Guinea, Liberia, Sierra Leone, and Mali are some of the countries to have achieved this feat.
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) together with the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI) in the UK published the Global Multidimensional Poverty Index (MPI), which is based on household surveys in 111 countries across the world.
However, according to the 2022 MPI, released on October 17, nearly 579 million Africans live in what the study calls “acute multidimensional poverty”.
This means sub-Saharan countries have overtaken South Asia as the region with the deepest poverty.
According to the study, 50 million people live in acute poverty in the world’s three poorest countries: Niger, South Sudan, and Burkina Faso.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Kwabena Nyarko Abronoma
