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cord-323676-sp8kys0n	Valensisi, Giovanni	COVID-19 and Global Poverty: Are LDCs Being Left Behind?	2020-10-21		.txt	text/plain	7124	306	51	Using growth forecasts from various vintages of the World Bank's Global Economic Prospects (and in some cases from the International Monetary Fund -IMF), other authors find that COVID-19 could trigger an increase in the number of people living below US$1.90/day by 40-100 million (Gerszon Mahler et al. In the second step, the above growth rates, pre-and post-COVID-19, are utilized to 'line up' the corresponding poverty estimates using PovcalNet, the World Bank's computational tool, which draws on more than 1500 household surveys from 164 countries and contains the official estimates of poverty at country, regional, and global levels. Focusing on the US$3.20 per day poverty line, South Asia is likely to suffer by far the largest slump, entailing a rise of nearly 4 percentage points in the headcount ratio, equivalent to 74 million additional poor, compared with what would have occurred if the pre-COVID-19 growth forecasts had materialized (Fig. 4) .	./cache/cord-323676-sp8kys0n.txt	./txt/cord-323676-sp8kys0n.txt