Three-out-of-four Lebanese now live in poverty: UN body ...Kuwait

Poverty in Lebanon has drastically increased in the past year, affecting 74 percent of the country's 6.8 million population, the UN said on Friday. Multidimensional poverty - which takes into accounts factors other than income, such as access to health, education, and public utilities - affects 82 percent of people living in Lebanon, the report by the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia (ESCWA) said. Beirut-based ESCWA said that in a report published last year, it found the headcount poverty rate jumped from 28 percent to 55 percent between 2019 and 2020. But according to Monday's updates, the multidimensional poverty rate in Lebanon has nearly doubled

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