IMPACT OF COVID -19 ON POVERTY

India witnessed a sharp rise in poverty when the covid-19 pandemic let to a strict national wild lockdown in
2020. Which for the first time after the great depression, is creating economic downturns in term of job,
income, and consumption loss. Some can afford space travel, but for some, managing the one-time meal is
rocket science. A harsh reality of the world, which is technologically so advanced that it can achieve anything
possible, but the widening of the gap between the rich and the poor just cannot be ignored.
The world make remarkable progress to end persistent poverty in recent years , however, the unprecedented
coronavirus (covid-19) pandemic reversed decades of progress to a large extent in the fight against poverty
and extreme poverty globally.