Grandeconomist

A UN account published on 9 October describes overlapping deprivation in shelter, health, education and livelihoods in Myanmar. It reports that 68% of the population experience multidimensional poverty or are at risk. Conflict, displacement, economic instability and disasters erode the buffers families use to absorb shocks. The underlying UNDP report appeared the previous day; today’s record is the new UN account, not a one-day increase in poverty.