The latest lockdown induced by the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic added an estimated 32.4 million (19.54 per cent) people to the “new poor” group in August, a survey has found. The survey also found the latest lockdown had severely disrupted and reversed the recovery trend of livelihoods of urban slum and rural households in Bangladesh, which had gradually been recovering since being severely hit by the first lockdown in April last year. The findings of the fourth round of the livelihoods survey, a joint initiative of BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) and Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC), were revealed at a webinar on Thursday.
The latest lockdown induced by the second wave of the Covid-19 pandemic added an estimated 32.4 million (19.54 per cent) people to the “new poor” group in August, a survey has found. The survey also found the latest lockdown had severely disrupted and reversed the recovery trend of livelihoods of urban slum and rural households in Bangladesh, which had gradually been recovering since being severely hit by the first lockdown in April last year. The findings of the fourth round of the livelihoods survey, a joint initiative of BRAC Institute of Governance and Development (BIGD) and Power and Participation Research Centre (PPRC), were revealed at a webinar on Thursday.
