{"id":206525,"date":"2020-05-01T07:02:49","date_gmt":"2020-05-01T07:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=206525"},"modified":"2020-05-04T07:48:09","modified_gmt":"2020-05-04T07:48:09","slug":"100-million-in-cities-around-the-world-will-fall-into-poverty-because-of-covid-19-world-bank-warns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/?p=206525","title":{"rendered":"100 million in cities around the world will fall into poverty because of Covid-19 &#8211; World Bank"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Crowded cities lacking water or sewage are on the front line, experts say<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>Cities will see a drop of 15 to 25 per cent in tax revenues because of the crisis<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<li><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\"><strong>World Bank says cities are lacking accurate data about slum neighbourhoods<\/strong><\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h1 style=\"text-align: center;\">By Reuters \u2013 April 30, 2020<\/h1>\n<div id=\"attachment_170842\" style=\"width: 550px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/St-Pedro-st-slum.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-170842\" class=\"wp-image-170842\" src=\"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/05\/St-Pedro-st-slum.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"540\" height=\"304\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-170842\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Poor sanitation and lack of running water are conducive to the spread of disease and they are no longer exclusive to Third World cities. Increasingly, they are found in the growing tent cities in and around Los Angeles. Click to enlarge<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Some 100 million city dwellers around the world are likely to fall into poverty because of the coronavirus pandemic, the World Bank has warned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Densely populated cities are on the front line of the outbreak &#8211; especially in slums where people are lacking running water, sewage systems or health care, urban experts said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Those problems will become harder to solve because cities will see a drop of 15 to 25 per cent in tax revenues as a result of the crisis, it is feared.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;Within cities we need to focus on those who need help the most, the poor and the vulnerable have been very seriously affected,&#8217; said Sameh Wahba, a global director for the World Bank.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Our estimate is that there will be possibly upward of a 100 million so-called &#8220;new poor&#8221; on account of loses of jobs and livelihoods and income,&#8217; Wahba told reporters.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Many cities lack accurate data about slum areas, making it difficult to know where investments should be targeted, experts say.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">A World Bank mapping tool using satellite imagery is helping cities find areas where people use communal toilets or where social distancing is impractical, Wahba said.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">So far the tool has been used to produce such maps for Cairo, Mumbai and Kinshasa<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Experts at the World Bank have carried out research along with those at the World Resources Institute and other groups.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Without data, government food and financial aid is not reaching slum areas where about one billion people live worldwide, said activist Sheela Patel.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;Whether you are a slum dweller, or a pavement dweller, a squatter or a homeless person, and if you are migrant, you are presently completely excluded from any form of entitlement in the city,&#8217; said Patel, head of an Indian rights group.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Reaching vulnerable communities during and after the pandemic means recognising how systems such as water, health, housing and transport are connected, said Ani Dasgupta, global director of the WRI Ross Center for Sustainable Cities.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">Investments must ensure that systems are integrated and not be &#8216;simple top-down central projects,&#8217; he said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ccffff;\">&#8216;We have to learn from this,&#8217; said Dasgupta. &#8216;We actually have to do things differently.&#8217;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailymail.co.uk\/news\/article-8271521\/Cities-face-100-million-new-poor-post-pandemic-world-experts.html\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19: one hundred million face poverty &#8211; not only in the Third World but in the West too<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":39262,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[105],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-206525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-coronavirus"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206525","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/39262"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=206525"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206525\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":206592,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/206525\/revisions\/206592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=206525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=206525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thetruthseeker.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=206525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}