Extreme poverty levels rise to 40 percent

EXTREME poverty in Zimbabwe rose from 22 percent in 2012 to 29 percent in 2017, and is likely to have risen further to as much as 38 percent in 2019, according to the country’s statistics agency. The Zimbabwe Statistics Agency (Zimstat) this week presented the figures following the launch of the Poverty Income and Consumption…

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