Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal today rejected to accept the data on new poor that came out earlier through surveys done by private research organisations to measure the effect of Covid-induced income loss. Over the last one year, Brac Institute of Governance and Development and Power and Participation Research Centre, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) and South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM) found in their surveys that poverty rates rose to 35 per cent to 43 per cent as many lost income opportunities in the wake of countrywide shutdown and resultant economic slowdown.
Finance Minister AHM Mustafa Kamal today rejected to accept the data on new poor that came out earlier through surveys done by private research organisations to measure the effect of Covid-induced income loss. Over the last one year, Brac Institute of Governance and Development and Power and Participation Research Centre, Centre for Policy Dialogue (CPD) and South Asian Network on Economic Modeling (SANEM) found in their surveys that poverty rates rose to 35 per cent to 43 per cent as many lost income opportunities in the wake of countrywide shutdown and resultant economic slowdown.
