The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) Multidimensional Poverty Report 2024, prepared together with the Oxford Poverty and Human Development Initiative (OPHI), indicates that 1.1 billion people are affected by extreme poverty and of these, some 500 million are in conflict contexts.
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