In a short time, about 60 million people around the world risks entering poverty. According to the forecast of the world Bank President, David Malpas in extreme poverty they will be because of the coronavirus pandemic, which deprives millions of people around the world last means of subsistence. Most of all, according to the head of the world Bank, affected States with developing economies, including Russia. In early 2020, before the pandemic, more than 18 million citizens are officially considered poor. More recent statistics, but we know that every day jobs are losing hundreds, if not thousands of Russians. In the II quarter domestic GDP may decline by 10%, and to leave work and regular, stable income will have millions of citizens.
As suggested Malpas, another global economic disaster has already arrived. “Families have lost loved ones, millions of jobs and livelihoods disappeared, health systems are experiencing a huge strain on the planet. The fall in global GDP in 2020 will amount to 5%,” — said the head of the world Bank, explaining the coming massive increase in poverty in the world.
As noted in a previous world Bank report, at present, the number of people from different countries living in conditions of extreme poverty exceeded 700 million people. “Mention below the poverty line after completion of the coronavirus pandemic will be just 60 million people, the world Bank is extremely optimistic forecasts. If he experts said about the future of 600 million poor in these assumptions could believe. Of course, the most affected developing countries, including Russia” — analyst GK “Finam” Sergey Drozdov.
the Proportion of Russians in the global list of poor are significant — in January 2020, as noted by Deputy Prime Minister Tatiana Golikova, below the poverty line in Russia were more than 18 million people. The figure itself is terrible, but it was relevant to the pandemic. It is obvious that over the past two months of isolation, the number of poor in the country has substantially increased. The only question is – how much?
the Exact answer yet, but there’s, for example. Alarming data on the growth of unemployment in the country at times. On the background of the pandemic coronavirus infection, estimated to Golikova, the number of officially registered unemployed in Russia has almost doubled to 1.7 million citizens. According to labour Minister Anton Kotyakova, their number may soon increase to 2.5 million people.
“Proceeding from such calculations, it can be assumed that about half of working Russians in the coming months will be to think about the future possible accumulation of monetary resources, and spending cash and other savings acquired in the “fat” years. At risk of slipping into poverty will be tens of millions of our fellow citizens,” – says doctor of Economics of HSE Sergey Smirnov.
Another source told “MK” Sergei Drozdov brought own assessment of possible growth of poverty in the country. The number of able-bodied population in Russia at the beginning of the year amounted to 75 million people. More than 18 million of them were on the poverty line. Just over a month of the epidemic and after the announcement of the coronavirus, the number of lost stable income has doubled. If the situation doesn’t stabilize, the number of Russians who have restricted earnings may increase on the order: that is, it will not 1,5-2 million “new poor”, and about ten million. “Judging by the polls, “Levada center,” nearly a third of respondents complain of a reduction of wages. Obviously, employers are forced to go to such anti-social measures. However, in connection with such steps, the number of middle-class decreases, and the number of the poor, barely getting by all, on the contrary, increases. Nobody will be surprised if by mid-year about your miserable situation is to say one in four of the 140 million inhabitants of Russia,” warns the analyst.
