Poverty Alleviation with Pedro Conceicao and Quansheng Zhao
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For many countries, the Covid-19 pandemic will leave long-lasting scars that ended decades of anti-poverty work.
Extreme poverty — defined as living on $1.90 a day or less — affected more than 9 percent of the global population in 2020. If the pandemic has not happened, the extreme poverty rate would have dropped to 7.9 percent in 2020, according to the World Bank.
Host Mike Walter speaks with Quansheng Zhao, chair of the Asian Studies Research Council at American University and author of Interpreting Chinese Foreign Policy, and Pedro Conceicao, director of the United Nations Human Development Report Office.
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