{"id":36677,"date":"2021-09-10T02:00:05","date_gmt":"2021-09-09T17:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/09\/afghans-risk-near-universal-poverty-un"},"modified":"2021-09-10T02:00:05","modified_gmt":"2021-09-09T17:00:05","slug":"afghans-at-risk-of-near-universal-poverty-un-report-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=36677","title":{"rendered":"Afghans at risk of near-universal poverty, UN report warns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Study suggests a worst-case scenario where 97% of Afghans would sink below poverty line by 2022<\/p>\n<p>Afghanistan\u2019s population of 38 million people risks being plunged into near-universal poverty faced with a \u201ccatastrophic deterioration\u201d of the country\u2019s heavily aid-dependent economy, according to a warning issued by the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP).<\/p>\n<p>The study, which examines a series of scenarios facing the already impoverished country under the Taliban\u2019s new hardline rule, suggests a worst-case scenario where as many as 97% of Afghans would sink below the poverty line by next year \u2013 a staggering increase of 25%.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/global-development\/2021\/sep\/09\/afghans-risk-near-universal-poverty-un\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Study suggests a worst-case scenario where 97% of Afghans would sink below poverty line by 2022Afghanistan\u2019s population of 38 million people risks being plunged into near-universal poverty faced with a \u201ccatastrophic deterioration\u201d of the country\u2019s heav&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":390,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[46,59,958,61,44,84,42],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-afghanistan","category-global-development","category-poverty","category-south-and-central-asia","category-taliban","category-united-nations","category-world-news"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/390"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=36677"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36677\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":36678,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36677\/revisions\/36678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=36677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=36677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=36677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}