CAN THE GAP BE CLOSED?

Poverty is said to exist where people lack the means to satisfy their basic needs.During COVID-19,everything almost every businesses were shut down. But this there are families that afforded three days meal even take their families for recreation activities.Also in the same country,there are families that could not even afford one meal in a day .New analysis according to UNICEF reveals the number of children living in multidimensional poverty – without access to education, health, housing, nutrition, sanitation, or water – has increased by 15 per cent since the start of the pandemic

By Business insider india

In Kenya like many other countries ,they received funds that could help up the families that were most disadvantaged. Kenyan investigators are to recommend the prosecution of at least 15 top government officials and businesspeople over the alleged misuse of millions of dollars meant for buying Covid-19 medical supplies, the BBC has learned. But health workers complained about a shortage of public protective equipment (PPE), saying their lives are at risk.https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.bbc.com/news/world-africa-54278417.amp

The government should please try that opportunities offered to the citizens ,must be given with no favors attached .

As others were suffering due to inequality in division of public funds ,others were enjoying themselves in beaches as soon as the lock down was counsel. When differences in GDP per capita are weighted by population, inequality between countries increased during 2020—which Deaton argues can be attributed to the pandemic. More specifically, it can be attributed to the sharp economic contraction in India, which suffered a great deal both in terms of mortality and economic performance—even before the massive second wave in 2021. Although China’s positive growth (and far fewer deaths) helps offset India’s decline, China is now too close to the global average income to completely compensate for India’s economic losses. When India is omitted from the calculation, Concept 2 inequality continues to decline, as it had been doing since the 1990s. Through India, the pandemic did contribute to a reversal in the previous pattern of falling weighted inequality between countries.https://www.imf.org/external/pubs/ft/fandd/2021/06/inequality-and-covid-19-ferreira.htm

The consciousness of knowing that all 9f us are equal is the great mindset that can help us fight inequality.