Bangladesh, April 30 -- The ongoing US-Israeli war on Iran risks pushing more than 30 million people across 160 countries into poverty, the head of the United Nations Development Programme warned on Wednesday - with Bangladesh explicitly named among the nations facing the gravest consequences.
Alexander De Croo, the UNDP chief and former prime minister of Belgium, made the warning on the sidelines of a G7 development meeting in Paris, in remarks to AFP. "It's development in reverse," De Croo said.
"It took decades to build stable societies, to develop local economies, and it took only several weeks of war to destroy that." The UNDP estimates that even if the conflict had ended after six weeks, the damage was already done.
"We did a study...