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Copied 04:48 For more than seven months, the pandemic has jeopardized the economic and social improvements humans have achieved in many decades, throwing billions of people into poverty. Among the impacted, Asian countries, with undeveloped social security systems and numerous informal workers, have borne the brunt of it. Informal workers account for nearly 60 percent of non-farm employment in the Asia Pacific. The pandemic may push 100 million more people into extreme poverty, almost half of whom live in South Asia, Beate Trankmann, UNDP China's country director said during the 2020 Extraordinary ASEAN-China Social Development and Poverty Reduction Forum on...
