The poor are the next victims

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the Pandemic seems slow to get under control in large parts of Europe. In the united STATES warn authorities towards the rapid and comprehensive opening of the society, but president Donald Trump listens rarely skills. In the USA it will probably get worse before it gets better. In South America, not least in Brazil, he covid-19 without effective control measures. This shows how the pandemic will spread. The poorest are the next victims.

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Poor countries as a rule, a weak health care system and no economic opportunities to support industries and jobs that are threatened. The danger is not only about the disease itself, but about the large-scale consequences for the poor country's economy. When the pandemic takes the third world is highlighted and reinforced global inequities and injustice.

the world economy is expected to shrink by three to four per cent in 2020. It might not sound like a disaster, but many places will just be covering. Commodity prices have fallen by over 20 per cent in the year, and such goods are particularly important for developing countries. All tourism has been the sudden stop and kontantoverføringene from family working abroad has decreased greatly. The whole of the informal economy, the poor job market, are greatly affected.

All of this is going at the same time as the poor countries ' debt burdens are greater than ever. Economists have calculated that the 77 poor countries only in the year to pay 62 billion dollars in interest and installments. Countries with low and low to medium income have a total foreign debt at unimaginable 2.1 billiard tables dollars. Many of these countries have no opportunity to fulfill all their obligations. Gjeldsbyrden will in itself limit the poor countries ' opportunities to help their own population.

- the Lungs changed to the unrecognizable

According to the Un food programme can loss of income as a result of the virus lead to a sharp increase in the number of people living in hunger. The past four years, armed conflicts, klimaskiftet and economic instability increased the number of people living in acute hunger from 80 to 135 million. The pandemic can cause additional 130 million into the state during the month of December, claim matvareprogrammets chief economist Arif Hussein. Then the world will have a quarter of a billion people in a serious state of hunger.

obviously that all this can develop into an explosive situation with wars, social unrest and large people wandering towards Europe and the united STATES. The world has no time to lose when it comes to assistance to the poorest and most vulnerable.

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