In 2022, the United Nations Development Programme estimated that the global cost of living crisis had pushed over 51 million people into extreme poverty at the US$ 1.90-a-day poverty line with an additional 20 million people falling into poverty at the US$ 3.20-a-day benchmark, bringing the net cumulative figure to 22.7% of the world’s population. In this briefing paper Kitty Mcgirr looks at how the cost of living crisis has affected Namibia and suggests strategies and reforms which could mitigate the impact on the most vulnerable.
