economist announced an increase in extreme poverty in Ukraine – UNIAN
At the same time, Ukraine is talking about a more optimistic scenario for the development of events.
Extreme poverty levels are rising in Ukraine. As Doctor of Economic Sciences Lyudmila Cherenko said in an interview with RBC-Ukraine, in the first years of the Russian-Ukrainian conflict from 2014 to 2015, poverty in Ukraine increased from 16.3% to 51.9%.
“And this phase of the war is even larger, and we could have expected much worse. We could have expected that poverty would grow incredibly, even to 80-90%. But this did not happen,” the economist reassured.
According to her, at the beginning of a full-scale invasion there were three possible scenarios for the development of events and Ukraine followed the one that was closer to the optimistic one.
Cherenko notes that during the war there was a significant increase in extreme poverty. This is a category of people whose income level is close to…
