25% jump in ‘newly poor’ in 10 months during Covid-19

The number of people classified as poor has gone up by 25 percent in the 10 months from June 2020 to April 2021 in Cambodia due to income decline and job losses following the spread of Covid-19, said a survey by the Asia Foundation.

In June 2020, the Ministry of Planning estimated 2.3 million people (560,000 households) as eligible for the Covid-19 Cash Transfer Programme. This number increased to 2.6 million people (640,000 households) in October 2020, and to 2.7 million people (694,000 households) in April 2021, it said.

“Over 10 months, the number of people classified as ‘newly poor’ increased by almost 25 percent,” said the Foundation while announcing the results of the ‘Revisiting the Pandemic Rapid Survey’ on tourism sector MSMEs with a sample size of over 1,000.

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