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Topic: Extreme Poverty

Maryar has three children from a husband who left her about a year ago to return to Darfur. She lives in the shack with another elder relative and her children. (Giles Clarke/UNOCHA via Getty Images)

The pandemic is causing extreme poverty

Matthew Rozsa
(AP/Seth Wenig)

Americans among poorest people in world

Paul Buchheit - Alternet
(<a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/gallery-62233p1.html'>Arman Zhenikeyev</a> via <a href='http://www.shutterstock.com/'>Shutterstock</a>)

Natasha Lennard