Fiji Women’s Crisis Centre Coordinator Shamima Ali and FRIEND Fiji Director Sashi Kiran are calling on the World Bank to give more details after they estimated Fiji’s national poverty rate for 2019-2020 to be 24.1% compared to 29.9% previously recorded.
Kiran says if you look at the Household Income and Expenditure Survey 2019-2020 Report, it was given in great detail.
She adds they cannot see these four paragraphs by the World Bank in their statement telling them that our poverty has dropped because there was a coding error.
Kiran says it is hard for them to digest that poverty has dropped.
She adds instead of talking about the drop in the poverty rate we should look at what are the challenges and how do we fill in the gaps.
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Kiran says they are also concerned with the rising prices as people cannot afford to buy food right now.
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We are currently trying to speak to the World Bank.
