Will coronavirus crisis widen Middle East’s rich-poor gap?

Will coronavirus crisis widen Middle East’s rich-poor gap?

Will coronavirus crisis widen Middle East's rich-poor gap?

Will coronavirus crisis widen Middle East's rich-poor gap?

Will coronavirus crisis widen Middle East's rich-poor gap?

A displaced Syrian woman and children carry over their heads bags of collected trash at a landfill outside a camp in Kafr Lusin near the border with Turkey in Idlib province in northwestern Syria. (AFP/File Photo)

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Will coronavirus crisis widen Middle East's rich-poor gap?

Lockdowns and inadequate policies threaten to push millions more deeper into poverty, says Oxfam report

Social safety nets and tax on luxury spending seen as possible measures to counter growing divide

Updated 06 October 2020

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DUBAI: Economically battered even before the COVID-19 crisis, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region is hard pressed to defy predictions of greater gloom.

Extended lockdowns, border closures and flight cancelations have exacerbated