COVID – 19 PANDEMIC COULD PUSH AT LEAST 260 MILLION INDIANS INTO POVERTY: RESEARCH

Highlights

• Due to the nationwide lockdown, hundreds of millions of its citizens struggle to make out a living.
• As a result, Indians who are presently close to the poverty line are at risk of becoming the new poor.

According to the United Nations and Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), the impact of COVID – 19 pandemic is brutal. It has brought economic f....