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Inflation pushed 71M people into poverty since Ukraine war

A man takes his goats to the market to sell, in the Kenscoff neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, June 24, 2022.(AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph) Vegetable seller Macdala Dieuvalice poses for portrait as she walks out of the market of Kenscoff neighborhood of Port-au-Prince, Haiti, Friday, June 24, 2022. (AP Photo/Odelyn Joseph) People cross barriers blocking streets during a protest demanding a return to civilian rule and to protest the nine people who were killed in anti-military demonstrations last month, in Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, July 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali) Protesters block roads during a demonstration demanding a return to civilian rule and to protest the nine people who were killed in anti-military demonstrations last month, in Khartoum, Sudan, Monday, July 4, 2022. (AP Photo/Marwan Ali) Maria, who works as a seamstress, sells crochet rags she made as she sits outside her home, alongside others built on squatted land in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, June 20, 2022. Maria, who lives alone, said she is afraid of being evicted because she doesn't have enough money to rent another place. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo) Children play near their homes built on squatted land that has been occupied by hundreds of poor families since 2018 in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, June 20, 2022. Rising inflation is eroding the buying power of consumers and angering potential voters, who fault President Jair Bolsonaro. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo) Protesters chant slogans during a demonstration against a recent hike in the prices of telecommunication and internet services, outside the building of MTC Touch, one of the country's two state-contracted telecom companies, in Beirut, Lebanon, Tuesday, July 5, 2022. Lebanon has been reeling from an economic crisis that has pulled over three quarters of its population into poverty in less than three years. (AP Photo/Bilal Hussein) A girl reaches out from a window of her home built on squatted land that is occupied by hundreds of poor families in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Monday, June 20, 2022. (AP Photo/Silvia Izquierdo) FILE - An aerial view shows an informal Syrian refugee camp, in the Bekaa valley town of Saadnayel, east Lebanon, April 23, 2019. Issam Charafeddine, the caretaker Minister for the Displaced, told The Associated Press in an interview Wednesday, July 6, 2022, that Lebanon hopes to start repatriating Syrian refugees within months over objections by the United Nations and rights groups. Lebanon has one of the world's highest numbers of refugees per capita, and currently hosts over 1 million Syrians who fled the decade-old conflict. (AP Photo/Hussein Malla, File) FILE - An Afghan refugee boy carries a bag of mangoes on his shoulder in Karachi, Pakistan, Sunday, June 19, 2022. Some 1.6 billion people in 94 countries face at least one dimension of the crisis in food, energy and financial systems, according to a report last month by the Global Crisis Response Group of the United Nations Secretary-General. (AP Photo/Fareed Khan, File) Afghans receive aid at a camp after an earthquake in Gayan district in Paktika province, Afghanistan, Sunday, June 26, 2022. A powerful earthquake struck a rugged, mountainous region of eastern Afghanistan early Wednesday, flattening stone and mud-brick homes in the country's deadliest quake in two decades, the state-run news agency reported. (AP Photo/Ebrahim Nooroozi) FILE - A worker collects Egyptian traditional 'baladi' flatbread, at a bakery, in el-Sharabia, Shubra district, Cairo, Egypt, Wednesday, March 2, 2022. Egypt will receive a $500 million loan from the World Bank to help finance its wheat purchases as prices skyrocket because of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, the Bank said Wednesday. The funds, approved Tuesday by the World Bank Board of Executive Directors, aim at supporting Egypt’s efforts to provide subsidized bread to poor and vulnerable households, it said. (AP Photo/Nariman El-Mofty, File)