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World Bank: Elevated extreme poverty to persist through 2021

Children collecting maize grains spilled by a truck on a roadside in Kisumu, western Kenya. The number of people living in extreme poverty is expected to remain unchanged after a huge surge this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the World Bank warned on June 9, 2020. PHOTO | FILE | NATION MEDIA GROUP

By  AFP

Washington,

Global economic growth could rebound in 2021 - but the number of people living in extreme poverty is expected to remain unchanged after a huge surge this year due to the coronavirus pandemic, the World Bank warned Tuesday.

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