Impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on African economies

More than three years since the first Covid-19 case was detected in Africa, the continent is still suffering from the pandemic’s fallout, which has reversed earlier gains in poverty reduction. According to data from the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) (2022), the pandemic’s disruptions pushed an estimated millions of Africans into extreme poverty in 2020 and reversed more than two decades of progress in poverty reduction on the continent. Poverty is not gender-neutral, and women and girls have been disproportionately affected because they earn less, save less and have less stable employment or live in or near poverty. Globally, an estimated 383 million women and girls survive on less than USD1.90 a day, compared with 368 million men and boys. Of the poor population, 63% reside in Sub-Saharan Africa, and 21% in Central and Southern Asia. And while poverty rates had been generally declining in recent years, the pandemic halted a significant portion of the progress

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