The 2020 budget has the plus sign of inequality between rich and poor.
According to the UN analysis, Covid has increased unemployment, hunger, the number of people in need of food aid, children who will no longer go to school in the world.
What we are experiencing "is not only a global health crisis, but it is also a serious economic and employment crisis that has a huge impact on people," said the director general of the International Labor Organization, Guy Ryder. United predicts, in fact, that 235 million people will be in need of humanitarian assistance in 2021.
This increase of about 40% compared to 2020 is almost entirely a consequence of the pandemic.
The greatest impact of the crisis that the world is going through then weighs on women, whose poverty rate has increased by more than 9 percent, reversing decades of progress to eradicate extreme poverty.
To overcome all this, a 'New deal' is needed.
According to United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres, the levels of poverty and inequality observed this year are far from inevitable and a fairer world is still possible, regardless of the acute shocks that may come, such as covid-19.
So Guterres expressed the hope that the pandemic could trigger the transformations necessary to strengthen social protection systems.
The world, according to the head of the United Nations, needs a global New Deal "in which power, resources and opportunities are better shared at international decision-making tables" and in which "governance mechanisms better reflect today's realities".