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Half of Zimbabweans faced extreme poverty in 2020 due to Covid-19: Survey

Almost half of Zimbabwe’s population was plunged into extreme poverty in 2020 due to increases in the prices of basic necessities, economic decline, poor harvests and the Covid-19 pandemic. According to the Rapid Poverty Incomes Consumption and Expenditure Surveys (PICES) Monitoring Telephone survey, the extreme poverty rate was already high at 38 percent in 2019. “Extreme poverty […]