You're reading: The Economist: COVID-19 is undoing years of progress in curbing global poverty

Jane Kabahuma has been eating one meal a day since the end of March, when the lockdown began. She used to work in a hotel, but it had to close, along with most businesses in Uganda. She thinks “it will take time” before the work comes back. In five months she is expecting a baby; it may arrive before a job does.

Read more here.