Dr Imran said the sample showed people’s incomes reduced more than 70 percent. Slum-dwellers’ incomed dropped by 82 percent, while the rural poor lost 79 percent on their income. “Around 47 percent people cut their cost of consumption due to fall in incomes. The poor slashed 40 percent expenditure for food while people vulnerable to poverty reduced 36 percent in this segment,” he said. Imran added that at least 27 percent of the poor are not getting three meals a day. “Even the 11 percent people above the poverty lineare unable to afford daily meals owing to the fallout of coronavirus,” added the BIGD executive director.
Dr Imran said the sample showed people’s incomes reduced more than 70 percent. Slum-dwellers’ incomed dropped by 82 percent, while the rural poor lost 79 percent on their income. “Around 47 percent people cut their cost of consumption due to fall in incomes. The poor slashed 40 percent expenditure for food while people vulnerable to poverty reduced 36 percent in this segment,” he said. Imran added that at least 27 percent of the poor are not getting three meals a day. “Even the 11 percent people above the poverty lineare unable to afford daily meals owing to the fallout of coronavirus,” added the BIGD executive director.
