Learning from the past: Ukraine war will leave commoners struggling for basics for many years
India Today
According to UNICEF, “The economic crisis and the war that began in 2014 had a dramatically adverse impact on the poverty situation, which only began to improve in 2018 and 2019.”
The mayhem caused by war does not begin with a gunshot fired and does not end with a bullet injury thus caused. Collateral damages hit civilisations more than material losses. Thousands are rendered homeless and left without food, water, and other basic amenities.
Unfortunately for Ukraine, even before it could recover from the annexation of Crimea eight years ago, it was thrust into war again.
According to UNICEF, “The economic crisis and the war that began in 2014 had a dramatically adverse impact on the poverty situation, which only began to improve in 2018 and 2019.”
Families with chronically low incomes that lost homes and other property due to the war struggled to survive. Families with small savings and steady jobs with moderate pay lost everything due to the recent hostilities and were pushed into poverty, the UNICEF noted.
During those tough times, only five to ten per cent of the population of the Donetsk and Luhansk oblasts could be classified as a safe group — financially stable with no risk of becoming poor. Overall, the country’s absolute poverty rate for households with children more than doubled from 29 per cent in 2013 to 67 per cent in 2015.
