Poverty Reduction - Half of Poorer Countries have cut Health Spending since Covid

Some rather depressing research from Oxfam reveals that budget analysis shows that post-Covid health spending has fallen in around a half of the poorest countries and that welfare spending and education spending have also seen marked declines, with the latter falling in three quarters of low- and low-middle income countries. Worse still, debt repayments have risen to 27.5% of their budgets.

Read the Article Here

As the article states, this represents “twice the amount that they have spent on their education, four times that of health and nearly 12 times that of social protection”, which won't be good for development prospects.

Even in developed economies though, the effect of the pandemic has been to widen income inequality in many economies.