‘6,4m Zimbos living in extreme poverty’

BY TAFADZWA KACHIKO
THE latest World Bank report indicates that 6,4 million Zimbabweans are living on less than US$1,90 a day.

The report is based on the multilateral institution’s Poverty and Inequality Platform (PIP), an interactive computational tool that allows users to replicate internationally comparable regional and country-level poverty estimates.

In its recent update, the World Bank said 40% of Zimbabweans (6,4 million when estimating the country’s population to be 16 million) were each according to the international poverty rate (PPP) living on less than $1,90 per day.

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